"Good writing is good conversation, only more..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things”

“No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.”

“Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.”

“As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says 'you are nothing', I will be a writer.”

“I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.”

“Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.”

“The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.”

“My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.”

“The ideal love affair should be conducted by post.”