The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at... - Ernest Hemingway

"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."

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."

"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."

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."