Remember to get the weather in your damn book--weather is ve... - Ernest Hemingway

"I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don't like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around."

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."

"The first draft of anything is shit."

"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."

"What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?"