The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to tru... - Ernest Hemingway

"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way."

"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."

"Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing."

"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."

"Religion is the opium of the poor"