| Simpsons Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988. |
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| NUMBER: | 6899 |
| AUTHOR: | Ernest Hemingway |
| QUOTATION: | If a writer … knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows…. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Quoted by Malcolm Cowley A Second Flowering Viking 73 |
| SUBJECTS: | Communications & the Arts: Literature: Writers & Editors |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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