Ernest Hemingway: There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather th

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them hi — Ernest Hemingway

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.

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