The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it. - Ernest Hemingway

"People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars."

"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."

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

"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?"

"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."