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Ernest Hemingway on Writing

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“I have to write to be happy whether I get paid for it or not. But it is a hell of a disease to be born with. I like to do it. Which is even worse. That makes it from a disease into a vice. Then I want to do it better than anybody has ever done it which makes it into an obsession. An obsession is terrible. Hope you haven't gotten any. That's the only one I've got left.”

More from Ernest Hemingway

“The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.”
“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
“As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”
“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”
“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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