Hopper wrote: "I want to compliment you for printing Ernest Hemingway's "The Killers" in the March Scribner's. It is refreshing to come upon such a honest piece of work in an American magazine, after wading through the vast sea of sugar coated mush that makes up the most of our fiction. Of the concessions to popular prejudices, the side stepping of truth, and the ingenious mechanism of the trick ending there is no taint in this story.", Edward Hopper to the editor, Scribner's Magazine, 82 (June 1927), p. 706d, quoted in Levin (1979, p. 7), Levin (1979, note 25) Levin, Gail (1979). Edward Hopper as Illustrator. New York and London: Norton. ISBN0-393-01243-3. Levin, Gail (1979). Edward Hopper as Illustrator. New York and London: Norton. ISBN0-393-01243-3.
