Quote of the Day (Ernest Hemingway, on ‘The Feeling of the Actual Life’ in His Work)

“I’m 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 cant do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you cant believe in it. Things aren’t that way. It is only by showing both sides—3 dimensions and if possible 4 that you can write the way I want to.” — American Nobel Literature laureate Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), in a Mar. 20, 1925 letter to his father Clarence, in The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Vol. 2, 1923-1925, edited by Sandra Spanier, Albert J. DeFazio III, and Robert W. Trogdon (2013)