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Don’t get discouraged because there’s a lot of mechanical work to writing. There is, and you can’t get out of it. I rewrote the first part of A Farewell to Arms at least fifty times. You’ve got to work it over. The first draft of anything is shit.
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) American writer
(Attributed)
A comment from Hemingway to Arnold Samuelson in 1934, as retold in Samuelson,
With Hemingway: A Year in Key West and Cuba (1984). More discussion
here and
here.
Added on 17-Dec-20 | Last updated 17-Dec-20
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The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) Irish author
Encounters, Preface to the 1951 Edition (1923)
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Added on 27-Jul-20 | Last updated 27-Jul-20
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