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Hemingway on Writing Well

“I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit,” Hemingway confided to F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1934. “I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.”

(Credit: Copyblogger, Ernest Hemingway’s Top 5 Tips for Writing Well)

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