"It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else."

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In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. Joyce was a very great writer and he would only explain what he was doing to jerks. Other writers that he respected were supposed to be able to know what he was doing by reading it.

— Ernest Hemingway