Ernest Hemingway

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

"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."

"There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein."

"Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing."

"Religion is the opium of the poor"

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The first draft of anything is shit."

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

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

"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."

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

"People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars."

"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."

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

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

"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."