The first draft of anything is shit.

Ernest Hemingway

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Incremental improvement Writing

Speaker

Ernest Hemingway

Source

With Hemingway: A Year in Key West and Cuba

Language

English

Time

1935 1930s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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United States

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Hemmingway, Ernest. Quoted in With Hemmingway: A Year in Key West and Cuba, by Arnold Samuelson. Random House, 1984.

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Fragment of an Agon
Language
English
Time
1932 1930s 20th century
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Eliot, T. S. "Fragment of an Agon." Sweeney Agonistes: Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama. Faber & Faber, 1932.

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Medium
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Statement Type
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Language
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Time
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