"Write hard and clear about what hurts...." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it.”

“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.”

“From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.”

“I always feel that whatever isn't necessary shouldn't be in a poem.”

“We do not precisely enjoy liberty at the Figaro. M. de Latouche, our worthy director (ah! you should know the fellow), is always hanging over us, cutting, pruning, right or wrong, imposing upon us his whims, his aberrations, his fancies, and we have to write as he bids.”

“Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.”

“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”

“For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular.”