ABSTRACT
Commenting once on the work of a young critic, Hemingway noted that a “writer is an outlyer like a gypsy … if he has enough talent all classes are his province. He takes from them all and what he gives back is everybody’s property …. The only reward is doing your work well and that is enough reward for any man …. Writing is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else I have ever done—so I do it. And it makes me happy when I do it well.”
