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“How much rewriting do you do?” “It depends. I rewrote the ending to ‘Farewell to Arms,’ the last page of it, 39 times before I was satisfied.” “Was there some technical problem there? What was it that had stumped you?” “Getting the words right.” — Ernest Hemingway interviewed by George Plimpton for The Art of Fiction no. 21. Everyone can write, but not everyone can be a writer. A serious writer cares deeply about quality and one