“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.”

~Ernest Hemingway

When I first heard the above quote by Hemingway, I gave it only a passing thought. It seemed too artsy-fartsy for my taste. What is a true sentence? What is truth? Eh, dunno.

Some years later I started thinking about it. After all, Hemingway wasn’t an artsy-fartsy type guy. Sure, maybe he wro...