There is no friend as loyal as a book. - Ernest Hemingway

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

"If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work."

"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 didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference."

"I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred."