Ernest Hemingway

"Oh Jake," Brett said, We could have had such a damned good time together."Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.Yes, I said. Isn't it pretty to think so?

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

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.

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

"This is a good place," he said. "There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.

God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had and I lay on the bed in the room of the hospital in Milan and all sorts of things went through my head but I felt wonderful...

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.

We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

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

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

Remember to get the weather in your damn book--weather is very important.

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.