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

"There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein."

"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way."

"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen."

"The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it."

"I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don't like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around."