A Writing Quote from Ernest Hemingway

“Write hard and clear about what hurts.”

~ Ernest Hemingway, 1899 – 1961

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I’ve featured another Ernest Hemingway quote before, but this is also a good one.

I believe it’s another way of saying that it’s important to write stories that really matter, as well as to entertain.

I also detect resonances to Haruki Murakami’s observation that:

“I like to write. I like to choose the right word, I like to write the right sentence… in the right place. That kind of engineering is exhausting, though: a d...