The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to... - Ernest Hemingway
"The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it."
"The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it."
"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way."
"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."
"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
"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."