There is no friend as loyal as a book. - 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?"

"I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil."

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

"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."