It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage i... - Ernest Hemingway

"I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil."

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

"it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply."

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

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