Ernest Hemingway Quotes
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
Ernest Hemingway, 1898-1961, Writer, Preface to Gustav Regle, The Great Crusade, 1940
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She is commenting on productions of historical events or people by Hollywood which purport to be historical movies but in which there are fundamental distortions of both history and the truth. The article byline was “When people get history from entertainment, Hollywood’s obligation to the truth is heightened.”
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910. Many historians would argue with the use of the verb “lie”. Many admit to some “embellishment” to illustrate and clarify points for the reader. Twain, a great humorist uses the technique of being literal at some points and extreme at others.
Poets would argue that theirs is a different and perhaps more important kind of truth.
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and sportsman. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admiration from later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two nonfiction works. Three of his novels, four short-story collections, and three nonfiction works were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature.
