"A letter some time ago from Maxwell E. Perkins let me in on the little secret that you work eight hours every day ~ Joyce I believe worked twelve. There was some comparison between how long it took you two great authors to finish your work.
Well Fitz you are certainly a worker. I have never been able to write longer than two hours myself without getting utterly pooped - any longer than that and the stuff begins to become tripe...
You dirty lousy liar to say you work (write) eight hours a day."
Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961) American author, jouralist.
~Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, 9 October, 1928. Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917 - 1961, edited by Carlos Baker, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1981.
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