In an interview in The Paris Review in 1958 Ernest Hemingway made an admission that has inspired frustrated novelists ever since: The final words of A Farewell to Arms, his wartime masterpiece, were rewritten “39 times before I was satisfied.”
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In an interview in The Paris Review in 1958 Ernest Hemingway made an admission that has inspired frustrated novelists ever since: The final words of A Farewell to Arms, his wartime masterpiece, were rewritten “39 times before I was satisfied.”