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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway. “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”. The Iceberg Principal

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Ernest Hemingway

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  1. Ernest Hemingway “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

  2. The Iceberg Principal "If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water." - Death in the Afternoon, Scribner's, 1932, Chap. 16, 192.

  3. Hemingway's Theory of Omission By omitting certain parts of a story, a writer actually strengthens that story. The writer must be conscious of these omissions and be writing true enough in order for the reader to sense the omitted parts. When the reader senses the omitted parts, a greater perception and understanding for the story can be achieved.

  4. In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels. Troops went by the house and down the road and the dust raised powdered the leaves of the trees. The trunks of the trees too were dusty and the leaves fell early that year and we saw the troops marching along the road and the dust rising and leaves, stirred by the breeze, falling and the soldiers marching and afterward the road bare and white except for the leaves.

  5. Well, we were in it. Every one was caught in it and the small rain would not quiet it. "Good-night, Catherine," I said out loud. "I hope you sleep well. If it’s too uncomfortable, darling, lie on the other side," I said. "I’ll get you some cold water. In a little while it will be morning and then it won’t be so bad. I’m sorry he makes you so uncomfortable. Try and go to sleep, sweet." I was asleep all the time, she said. You’ve been talking in your sleep (197).

  6. The Iceberg Theory is about understatement and the art of what to leave out. • Write about what you know but don’t write all that you know • Grace comes from understatement • Create feelings from the fewest possible details • Each scene in a story should suggest more tension than it states.

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