sloanspace

“Sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going … I would stand and look over the roofs of Paris and think, ‘Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.’ So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there. It was easy then because there was always one true sentence that I knew or had seen or had heard someone say.”

– excerpt from A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

For today’s class you looked over the Princeton Hit Parade lists and wrote 10 superb sentences. Now let Hemingway’s advice guide you. Write the truest sentences you know by revising the ones you have. The first ten and the revisions are due next class.