All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.

—Ernest Hemingway (via normalisabadword)

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt use it—don’t cheat with it. Be as faithful to it as a scientist—but don’t think anything is of any importance because it happens to you or anyone belonging to you.

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Letters of Note: Forget your personal tragedy

From a letter Hemingway wrote to F. Scott Fitzgerald

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