"Everyone my age had written a novel..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.”

“I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.”

“The fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be penalized severely. I will be. Don't worry.”

“The firmest house in my fiction, probably, is the little thick-walled sandstone farmhouse of 'The Centaur' and 'Of the Farm'; I had lived in that house, and can visualize every floorboard and bit of worn molding.”

“I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.”

“An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that - Count Leo Tolstoy.”

“it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.”

“If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.”

“What's my credibility? Why are they looking to me for advice? Isn't there someone more qualified?”