Hemingway wrote the last paragraph of The Sun Also Rises 28 times before he felt he got it right.
Hemingway, pfssh. Well, I wrote and rewrote the last paragraph of All in a Cup 280 times over a period of at least forty years. So there.
Hemingway also is said to have found it ridiculous that people would think writers were born with some sort of innate ability to string together eloquent prose to form powerful stories about humanity. That's weird because I find it really EASY.
