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Ernest Hemingway on Writing

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“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”

More from Ernest Hemingway

“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”
“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
“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.”
“Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done – so I do it. And it makes me happy when I do it well.”
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