He believed fiction could be based on reality, but that if an experience were to be distilled, as he explained, then "what he made up was truer than what he remembered".
== Ozadje ==Kot mnogi ameriški pisatelji je tudi Hemingway po dokončani srednji šoli pričel z delom reporterja pri The Kansas City Star, kjer se je hitro naučil, da se resnica pogosto skriva pod površjem (zgodbe).