Bullshit Detector
Hemingway once said: “The essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, bullshit detector.” I understood it as a writer’s ability to extract a good idea from a multitude of bad ones, but it can also be understood as a writer’s ability to cut all sufficiencies from his writing, or to recognize the truth from lies. Either way, a good bullshit detector is something every writer should have, but it seems to me