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A writer who gains public stature by shedding loneliness often produces worse work, because the work is done alone
Drawn from what Ernest Hemingway said
What Ernest Hemingway actually said
- Ernest Hemingway American novelist (1899 to 1961)
He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.
Where this was said
↗Banquet speech, Nobel Prize in Literature 1954nobelprize.org
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