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

"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?"

"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."

"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."

"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."