“Scott took LITERATURE so solemnly. He never understood that it was just writing as well as you can and finishing what you start.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Letter to Arthur Mizener (12 May 1950); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker

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