Every week, I’ll put up a quotation related to writing or creation and tell you a little bit about the person who said it. I’ll try to vary the speakers as much as possible.
"In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well oiled in the closet, but unused." - Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway is a fairly known writer, having published classics like The Old man and the Sea and For Whom the Bell Tolls. He is also known for his drinking (and apparently he frequently embarked on “alcoholic sprees” with James Joyce). His writing style is very heavily ice-berg based, meaning that very little is said explicitly, but a lot is going on under the surface.
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