"Write drunk; edit sober...." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”

“A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.”

“The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.”

“I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration, or a metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my Ideas flow as fast as the rain in the Storecloset it would be charming.”

“There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet.”

“Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.”

“I am like a blind pig when I work.”

“Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper.”

“I don't know what I'm going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can't see around the bend and you don't know where you are going to go, which is fun.”