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Ernest Hemingway on Writing
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“It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
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Ernest Hemingway
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“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”
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“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
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“There’s no rule on how it is to write … Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly. Sometimes it is like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.”
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