The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway Quotes

“You see I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way. It is only by showing both sides—3 dimensions if possible 4 that you can write the way I want to.21”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Hemingway Library Collector's Edition