"in going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. but i would rather have it bent and dull and know i had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that i had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused..."

-e. hemingway