The first draft of anything is shit.

Ernest Hemingway

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Topic

Incremental improvement Writing

Speaker

Ernest Hemingway

Source

With Hemingway: A Year in Key West and Cuba

Language

English

Time

1935 1930s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Hemmingway, Ernest. Quoted in With Hemmingway: A Year in Key West and Cuba, by Arnold Samuelson. Random House, 1984.

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Citation

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Author

Elmore Leonard
Language
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Time
1985 1980s 20th century
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