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

"it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply."

"I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works."

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

"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"

"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"