Ernest Hemingway

"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."

"The first draft of anything is shit."

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

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

"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer."

"I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference."

"I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works."

"I drink to make other people more interesting."

"Remember to get the weather in your damn book--weather is very important."

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

"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."

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

"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."

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."

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

"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."

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

"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way."