Below is part of an interview with Nobel Prize winning author, Ernest Hemingway from an article titled “The Art of Fiction,” which appeared in the Paris Review in 1956.

Interviewer: “How much rewriting do you do?

Hemingway: It depends. I rewrote the ending of ‘A Farewell to Arms’, the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied.

Interviewer: Was there some technical problems there? What was it that had stumped you?

Hemingway: Getting the words right.”