“In my time, Ernest Hemingway wrote a certain kind of story better and more effectively than it had ever been done before. 

He was properly accepted and acclaimed. He was imitated almost slavishly by every young writer, including me, not only in America but in the world. 

He wrote a special kind of story out of a special kind of mind and about special moods and situations. 

When his method was accepted, no other method was admired. The method or style not only conditioned the stories but the thinking of his generation.”

–John Steinbeck