Ernest Hemingway Epic Quotations

You see, I am 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 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.

All bad writers are in love with the epic.

Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.