What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or be…

Ernest Hemingway
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What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2014). The Hemingway Collection, p.1086, Simon and Schuster
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What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2014). The Hemingway Collection, p.1086, Simon and Schuster

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