All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the tru... - Ernest Hemingway

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

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

"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."