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

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

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

"I drink to make other people more interesting."

"Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing."

"I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works."