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Ernest Hemingway, ca. 1939. Photograph by Lloyd Arnold, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

Each week,\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review unlocks stories, poems, and interviews from our archive for our readers. This week, to mark the occasion of the hundred-year anniversary of Ernest Hemingway’s novel<\/em> The Sun Also Rises,<\/em> we\u2019ve unlocked the writer’s Art of Fiction<\/a> interview from issue no. 18<\/a> (Spring 1958).\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Sun Also Rises<\/em> I started in Valencia on my birthday, July 21,\u201d Ernest Hemingway told George Plimpton in his Art of Fiction interview, published in issue no. 18 of the Review<\/em>. \u201cEverybody my age had written a novel and I was still having a difficult time writing a paragraph.\u201d<\/p>\n

This past Thursday, October 22, marked the hundred-year anniversary of The Sun Also Rises<\/em>\u2014the first draft of which, the writer revealed to Plimpton, he completed in only six weeks. \u201cI showed the first draft to Nathan Asch, the novelist, who then had quite a strong accent,\u201d says Hemingway. \u201cHe said, \u2018Hem, vaht do you mean saying you wrote a novel? A novel huh.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

One hundred years after the publication of The Sun Also Rises<\/em>, the Review<\/em> no longer phoneticizes as Plimpton did here\u2014but other things have stuck around, like Hemingway\u2019s interview, which we\u2019ve unlocked this week to mark the occasion of the centennial.<\/p>\n

INTERVIEW
\n<\/small>The Art of Fiction No. 21<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
\nErnest Hemingway<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

INTERVIEWER<\/p>\n

How about financial security? Can that be a detriment to good writing?<\/p>\n

HEMINGWAY<\/p>\n

If it came early enough and you loved life as much as you loved your work it would take much character to resist the temptations. Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying. Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves.<\/p>\n

From issue no. 18 (Spring 1958)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Hazel Byers is the\u00a0<\/em>Review\u2019s engagement editor.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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