Kicking off this week’s blog entries with wise words – wise observances actually – from Ernest Hemingway, who was born in Illinois in 1899. I continue to find thoughtful and thought-provoking gems from Hemingway in the series The Letters of Ernest Hemingway (Volume 6 to be published this year).
“All good books," Hemingway wrote, "are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that it all happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”
Happy writing, and reading.
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