#5
“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea28
#6
“Gertrude Stein and me are just like brothers.”
Ernest Hemingway, letter to Sherwood Anderson, 1922
#7
“You see I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the 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.”
Ernest Hemingway, letter to his father, 1925
#8
“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.”
Ernest Hemingway in interview with Paris Review 195831