How many words did Hemingway typically write in a day?
The following is from “On the Books” by Roger Bourne Linscott reprinted in Conversations with Ernest Hemingway edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli: “Mr. Hemingway works on a strict schedule that produces an average of 500 to 1,000 words a day. ‘I start in at seven in the morning,’ he says, ‘and I always quit when I’m going good, so that I’ll be able to pick right up again the next day.
