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What a writer puts into the work eventually becomes clear, and that plus craft decides whether the writer endures or is forgotten
Drawn from what Ernest Hemingway said
What Ernest Hemingway actually said
- Ernest Hemingway American novelist (1899 to 1961)
Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.
Where this was said
↗Banquet speech, Nobel Prize in Literature 1954nobelprize.org
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