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

"If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed."

"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'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."

"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."

"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."