For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
(Nobel Prize acceptance speech, 1954)

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Courage is grace under pressure.

Ernest Hemingway (The New Yorker Interview, 1929)

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

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There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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