Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death,... - Ernest Hemingway

"After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day."

"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."

"I drink to make other people more interesting."

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."