The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at... - Ernest Hemingway
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."
"People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars."
"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."
"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
"You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love."
"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."