You see 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 read something by me you actually experience the thing.
Ernest Hemingway
En una carta enviada a su padre desde París, el 20 de marzo de 1925...
(Tomado de Carlos Baker ed., Ernest Hemingway: Selected letters, 1917-1961, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1981)
