Why do we care about word choice? Interviewer:How much rewriting do you do? Hemingway:It depends.I rewrote the ending of Farewell to Arms,the last page of it,39 times before I was satisfied. Interviewer:Was there some technical problem there? What was it that had stumped you? Hemingway:Getting the words right. (Ernest Hemingway,"The Art of Fiction,"The Paris Review Interview,1956)Why do we care about word choice? Interviewer: How much rewriting do you do? Hemingway: It depends. I rewrote the ending of Farewell to Arms, the last page of it, 39 times before I was satisfied. Interviewer: Was there some technical problem there? What was it that had stumped you? Hemingway: Getting the words right. (Ernest Hemingway, "The Art of Fiction, " The Paris Review Interview, 1956)