It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the j... - Ernest Hemingway

"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."

"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."

"If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it."

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

"There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges."