Ernest Hemingway

Never mistake motion for action. ”

Courage is grace under pressure. ”

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. ”

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. ”

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it. ”

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it. ”

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

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. ”

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. ”

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. ”