Ernest Hemingway

"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."

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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 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?"

"I drink to make other people more interesting."

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

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

"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."

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

"If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed."

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

"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?"

"If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it."

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."