"It’s is a lot better than I say. But it’s not as good as you can do.
[….]
Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt use it—don’t cheat with it. Be as faithful to it as a scientist—but don’t think anything is of any importance because it happens to you or anyone belonging to you."
[….]
Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt use it—don’t cheat with it. Be as faithful to it as a scientist—but don’t think anything is of any importance because it happens to you or anyone belonging to you."
— Letters of Note: Forget your personal tragedy, Ernest Hemingway to F. Scott Fitzgerald re: Tender Is the Night.
