Ernest Hemingway
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American novelist (1899 to 1961), also a short-story writer and journalist; awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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No writer who knows of great writers who never received the Nobel Prize can accept it other than with humility (opens korrents.com)
“No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility.”
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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 (opens korrents.com)
“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…”
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Writing at its best is a lonely life, and writers' organizations ease the loneliness but probably do not improve the writing (opens korrents.com)
“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer’s loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing.”
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No writer who knows of great writers who never received the Nobel Prize can accept it other than with humility (opens korrents.com)