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The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
Age: 61 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 21
Died: 1961
Died: July 2
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Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.
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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
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Try and write straight English never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.
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I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.
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For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.
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