Ernest Hemingway

Courage is grace under pressure.

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.

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

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

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

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.