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Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
Ernest Hemingway A Moveable Feast · 1964

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“This was omitted on my new theory that you could omit anything if you knew that you omitted and the omitted part would strengthen the story and make people feel something more than they understood.”

Ernest Hemingway · A Moveable Feast, 1964 · Primary source

Works

Ernest Hemingway · 1963
A Man’s Credo

A posthumous collection of Hemingway’s observations on life, writing, love, death, work, character and the standards by which people live.

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