Ernest Hemingway on Solemnity

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

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“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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