"Practice what you know and it will help to make clear what now you do not know."

- Rembrandt van Rijn

"No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination."

- Edward Hopper

A word from our ancestors....

Excerpt from "Ernest Hemingway on Writing"

"Would like to finish this [A Farewell to Arms] down here if possible, put it away for a couple or three months and then re-write it.  The re-writing doesn't take more than six weeks or two months once it is done.  But it is pretty important to let it "cool off" well before re-writing."

-"to Maxwell Perkins, 1928 Selected Letters"

with thanks to Scott Christensen.