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