My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in... - Ernest Hemingway

"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."

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

"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."

"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."

"There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges."