Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teac... - Ernest Hemingway

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

"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."

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

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

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