Ernest Hemingway

"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."

"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"

"Never go on trips with anyone you do not love."

"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way."

"The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it."

"it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply."

"I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don't like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around."

"Religion is the opium of the poor"

"I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred."

"If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work."

"I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil."

"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."

"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."

"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."

"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."

"The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it."

"What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?"

"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."

"After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day."