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“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Write what should not be forgotten.”
― Isabel Allende

“As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you’re a writer you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act—truth is always subversive.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird