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

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

"If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed."

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."

"There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein."

"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer."