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Writing with a pencil was one of Ernest Hemingway's writing tips.
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"If you write with a pencil, you get three different looks at it to see if the reader is getting what you want him to," Hemingway said. First, read it over; then, once typed, you have another chance to improve it; and finally, in the proof. Writing it in pencil first gives you a third more chance to improve it."