Reading a book called "Ernest Hemingway on Writing." Did you know he nicknamed new/young writer "mice?"

Let's see what else he says:

The best training for a writer is an unhappy childhood

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He was an old man who trolled alone on a five-year-old laptop on the Internet and he had gone two years now without a story in the Featured box. In the first forty days a ferret had been with him but the ferret's friends had told her that the old man was definitely and finally furry, which is the worst kind of nerd, and the ferret had gone at their urging to another fandom where her stories had gotten into the Featured box three times in the first month. It made the ferret sad to see

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An excerpt from "Earnest Hemingway on Writing."
pg. 135

Mice (E.H.'s nickname for young writers): "That isn't the way they teach you to write in college."
Y.C.: "I don't know about that. I never went to college. If any sonofabitch could write he wouldn't have to teach writing in college."