"The thing that was important to me about Hemingway at the time was that Hemingway taught me that you could be a writer and get away with it."

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Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works.

— Tom Robbins