From ‘Good Writ­ing, a Gaz­etteer & Guide’:

Pg. 14: “Write what you know” — Anonym­ous (though often attrib­uted to Ern­est Hem­ing­way).
Pg. 82: “First drafts are shit” — Ern­est Hem­ing­way.
Pg. 7: “It’s not wise to viol­ate the rules until you’ve learned to observe them” — Lil­lian Hell­man? (No, T.S. Eliot, a Brit­ish poet born in St. Louis, Mis­souri.) Read the rest of this entry »