All ERNEST HEMINGWAY Quotes about “Seven”

“There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.”
“I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.”
“Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.”
“I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.”

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