Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer mus…

Ernest Hemingway
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Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2014). By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades, p.195, Simon and Schuster
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Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2014). By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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