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

"People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars."

"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way."

"I drink to make other people more interesting."

"I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred."

"If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work."