If a writer of prose knows enough of what he
is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if
the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things
as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of
movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above
water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only
makes hollow places in his writing.
— Ernest Hemingway
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