The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.
Ernest HemingwayWhen you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
Ernest HemingwayHe had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.
Ernest Hemingway