From Ernest Hemingway on Writing

A lot of the book contains a bunch of different quotes from writers on whatever topic that chapter is discussing. I was reading the chapter about Advice for Writers. One quote talks about writing exactly what happened in action so that the reader envisions what you saw and hopefully will feel what you felt. I think that is a really helpful note because a good writer makes people feel an emotion. This is one of my favorite quotes so far in the book, "You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of 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 can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't 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." -Dr. C. E. Hemingway I like this quote because it talks about making the writer feel something you do that by writing something believable. I know I talked about that in the past post, but it is repeated in this book, and I'm starting to see that it is very important. There was also another quote that talked about listening and observing. It said when you walk into a room you should be able to sit back and observe and be able to tell everything you saw and what happened. And what made you feel the way you did when you left. I think this is very important because when you write you have to know how to portray emotions, believable ones. I think it is also good to observe because you learn about different types of people. That can broaden your horizons on your characters, too.