Grand Cen­tral Sta­tion, New York. Photo by: Cuba Gallery

“When you first start writ­ing sto­ries in the first per­son, if the sto­ries are made so real that peo­ple believe them, the peo­ple read­ing them nearly always think the sto­ries really hap­pened to you. That is nat­ural because while you were mak­ing them up you had to make them hap­pen to the per­son who was telling them. If you do this suc­cess­fully enough, you make the per­son who is read­ing them believe that the things hap­pened to him too. If you can do this you are begin­ning to get what you are try­ing for, which is to make some­thing that will become a part of the reader’s expe­ri­ence and a part of his mem­ory. There must be things that he did not notice when he read the story or the novel which, with­out his know­ing it, enter into his mem­ory and expe­ri­ence so that they are a part of his life. This is not easy to do.”

- Ernest Hem­ming­way, unpub­lished man­u­script from the Kennedy Library col­lec­tion, Hem­ming­way on Writ­ing (Ed Larry Phillips)