“A serious writer is not to be confused with a solemn writer.”

—  Ernest Hemingway, book Death in the Afternoon

Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 16
Context: A serious writer is not to be confused with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

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American author and journalist 1899–1961

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