Ernest Hemingway

He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

Anyone can be a fisherman in May.

You've such a lovely temperature.

Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.

It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.

Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

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.

Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

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

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

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

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

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

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

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.