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."

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

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

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

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