Based on his experiences, this paper examines the roots and influences of Hemingway's unique writing style. ... Brevity in speech and in writing is a quality that was recognized by a supremely talented wordsmith and the preeminent practitioner of English writing, William Shakespeare. ... His writing has become such a prevailing influence in American writing that it is something a writer finds he or she has to be either consciously emulated or completely avoided. ... On the snippet, Hemingway prefaced the James quote "The war has used up words " by writing "on the debasement of words b...

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