“You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.”

—  Ernest Hemingway

Paris Review interview (1958)
Context: You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

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