The great thing is to last and get your work done, and see and hear and understand and write when there is something that you know and not before and not too damn much afterwards. (Ernest Hemingway)

The great thing is to last and get your work done, and see and hear and understand and write when there is something that you know and not before and not too damn much afterwards.

Ernest Hemingway

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