“In going where you have to go, and
doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt
the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and
know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a
whetstone to it, and know I had something to write about, than to have it
bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet,
but unused.” Ernest Hemingway
