Ernest Hemingway

"You’re beautiful. You walk wonderfully and if I were here and saw you now for the first time I’d be in love with you. If I saw you for the first time everything would turn over inside of me and I’d ache right through my chest."

"If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing. A writer who appreciates the seriousness of writing so little that he is anxious to make people see he is formally educated, cultured or well-bred is merely a popinjay. And this too remember; a serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl."

"Never confuse movement with action."

"Dostoevsky was made by being sent to Siberia. Writers are forged in injustice as a sword is forged."

"As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand."

"A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it."

"I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and Strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to do; we never did such things."

"When you have two people who love each other, are happy and gay and really good work is being done by one or both of them, people are drawn to them as surely as migrating birds are drawn at night to a powerful beacon."

"“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”"

"“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”"

"Why must man not marry" "He cannot marry. He cannot marry," he said angrily. "If he is to lose everything, he should not place himself in a position to lose that. He should not place himself in a position to lose. He should find things he cannot lose."

"“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”"

"All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time."

"The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing."

"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."

"The gypsies believe the bear to be a brother to man because he has the same body beneath his hide, because he drinks beer, because he enjoys music and because he likes to dance."

"I think you have more fun as a human being even though it is much more painful."

"We only knew then that there was always the war, but that we were not going to it anymore."

"World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought."

"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason."