I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I... - 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."

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."

"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."

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

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