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Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt use it—don’t cheat with it

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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed”

Ernest Hemingway

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“Write hard and clear about what hurts”

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