Tag: Gertrude Stein

• A Hemingway Feast

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick Confession time:  I’ve never been a great fan of Ernest Hemingway’s writing. It leaves me cold. That’s not to say he isn’t a brilliant writer; I’m only saying his style of writing is not my favorite. I go more for Fitzgerald and Steinbeck. Nonetheless, I longed to read A Moveable Feast,…

  P. C. Zick

  January 17, 2013

  Ramblings of a Writer, Style and Grace, Writing Ideas

  authors, characters, Ernest Heminway, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, fiction, Gertrude Stein, John Steinbeck, novels, Paris 1920s, writers, writing

• All memory is fiction

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature. -Ernest Hemingway I just finished reading The Paris Wife by Paula McLain, a fictional account of Hemingway’s first marriage to Hadley Richardson. They married before he’d published any of his novels, and she…

  P. C. Zick

  August 21, 2012

  Ramblings of a Writer

  caricatures, characters, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald. autobiography, fiction, Gertrude Stein, memory, The Paris Wife, writers