If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is co... - Ernest Hemingway

"What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?"

"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."

"The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it."

"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."

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