evidence: FACT CHECK: Did Ernest Hemingway Say, ‘We Are All Broken — That’s How The Light Gets In’? An image shared on Facebook claims writer Ernest Hemingway once stated, "We are all broken — that’s how the light gets in." [...] Searching for the expression in collections of Hemingway’s novels, poems and short stories turned up no matches. (RELATED: Did Ernest Hemingway Say, ‘I Love Sleep.