Ernest Hemingway

"Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up."

"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists."

"Time is the least thing we have of."

"Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over."

"Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture."

"Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor."

"Courage is grace under pressure."

"Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth."

"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."

"I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances."

"I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it."

"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"

"I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down."

"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."

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

"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."

"Man is not made for defeat."

"Never go on trips with anyone you do not love."

"Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it."

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

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

"There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter."

"There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it."

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self."

"When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write."

"Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?"

"You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love."

"You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just depict life - or criticize it - but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful."