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yeronlyman · 51-55, M
@DearAmbellina2113 I think Dickens was really smart... but I couldn’t quite get him...
After reading Hemingway I realised why... he cut to the chase while dickens was more padded and verbose (not an insult, just an observation)
What caused the dichotomy of those two writers?
Hemingway was a journalist and paid to be succinct due to column inches, while dickens serialised in Victorian times and his pay was linked to stretching it out...
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After reading Hemingway I realised why... he cut to the chase while dickens was more padded and verbose (not an insult, just an observation)
What caused the dichotomy of those two writers?
Hemingway was a journalist and paid to be succinct due to column inches, while dickens serialised in Victorian times and his pay was linked to stretching it out...
😬
Lostpoet · M
@yeronlyman Faulkner is my favorite writer and I guess there was kind of a rivalry between them because they were always pitted against one another for who's the best of there time. I like how they used to go aftereach other. “He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.” — William Faulkner
“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.” — Ernest Hemingway
“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.” — Ernest Hemingway