Sanctioned theft

If you’re friends with a writer, does this sound familiar? Writers, do you pillage your friends’ experiences?

“In the early days of writing in Paris I would invent not only from my own experience but from the experiences and knowledge of my friends and all the people I had known and met since I could remember, who were not writers. I was very lucky always that my best friends were not writers and to have known many intelligent people who were articulate.” — Ernest Hemingway, “On Writing in the First Person” (from A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition)

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