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Ernest Hemingway

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Quotable

Who's right?

So... I stumbled onto these two quotes within a few seconds of one another... "In order to write about life, first you must live it!" - Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961), writer, journalist But then: * Ned Rorem, Pulitzer Prize-Winning American Composer Which is it? Come on. Time's
19 Jun 2010
On Books & Writing

Hemingway's Advice for Storytellers

Hemmingway, via my friend David Habecker: I ran across this reference to Hemingway today and thought you might appreciate it, with its obvious application to much so-called "Christian literature": "No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in,
13 Apr 2008 1 min read
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