You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

A.E. Van Vogt
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The quote from Ernest Hemingway, “You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living,” captures how different his life was from the lives of writers. He was a working man writing. He says he never met another writer until he came to Paris in 1928. Hemingway is a writer that stands out in the quote by Ernest Hemingway. The fact that he spent so much time writing is evident in the last part of the quote when he says “then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story.” In this quote, Hemingway shows how different his life was from other writers by saying he sold stories when he worked in an office for a living.

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