Hemingway's famous iceberg theory of writing.
Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 16
“Edvin is one of those persons who write to survive as writers and people; for them being a human and writer is the same thing.”
Miloš Urošević, as quoted in May '92 (2012) p.19
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