A Book Quote For Sunday—From Ernest Hemingway’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
“For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.”
~ Ernest Hemingway, 1954
This is only one paragraph from what is, in fact, quite a short speech. But in it, I feel Hemingway has “nailed” an important part of what being a writer is about—or what the whole business of writing “should” be about, at any rate.