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?"

"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."

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

"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?"

"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."

"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."

"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."

"There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges."

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