Death in the Afternoon

by Ernest Hemingway
United States
21 Jul 1899 // 2 Jul 1961
Author / Journalist



Writing a Novel (1)

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. If a writer can make people live there may be no great characters in his book, but it is...


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Death in the Afternoon

Ernest Hemingway

 

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