Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work. ✨ Ernest H…

Ernest Hemingway
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Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2015). Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations, p.11, Melville House
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He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2014). Across the River and Into the Tre … ▶
Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2002). Men Without Women, p.143, Simon and Schuster
My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2002). The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, p.309, Simon and Schuster
The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuabl … ▶
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2008). The Good Life According … ▶

Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2015). Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations, p.11, Melville House

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