Have I mentioned lately how I adore everything he said about writing?

…If the stories are made so real that people believe them the people reading them nearly always think the stories really happened to you. That is natural because while you were making them up you had to make them happen to the person who was telling them. If you do this successfully enough you make the person who is reading them believe that the things happened to him too. -Ernest Hemingway, unpublished manuscript from the Kennedy Library collection.