It's none of their business that you have to learn how to wr... - 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."

"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."

"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."

"The first draft of anything is shit."

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