I drink to make other people more interesting. - Ernest Hemingway

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

"The first draft of anything is shit."

"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?"

"You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love."