
INTERVIEWER
Is emotional stability necessary to write well? You told me once that you could only write well when you were in love. Could you expound on that a bit more?
HEMINGWAY
What a question. But full marks for trying. You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. If it is all the same to you I would rather not expound on that.
via Paris Review – The Art of Fiction No. 21, Ernest Hemingway.

I’ve often found that when I am writing a piece for someone, it goes better. Not always, but often.
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