Ernest Hemingway

"Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time."

"Chasing yesterday is a painful way to live."

"The only thing that could spoil a day was people."

"Everything is the thing you cannot do, as a writer."

"Sometimes people give up when they are about to achieve success."

"It is impossible for me to estimate how many problems we escape by the mere inaction on a thousand trifling matters."

"What is new in any case is always bad."

"Experts, he said, were damned dangerous."

"Wine is a poem in a bottle."

"The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness."

"In writing, do the difficult parts first. That makes the easy parts easier."

"Madness in individuals is something rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule."

"The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them."

"There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good woman and then outlived her."

"One cat just leads to another."

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

"The things that took me the longest to learn have always been the things for which I had the greatest aptitude."

"The social construction of gender is a beautiful thing. Stop opposing it."

"There are four stages of competence: unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence, and unconscious competence."

"The discipline you learn in writing is an internal thing."

"A good man is hard to find."

"Paris is a moveable feast."

"There is nothing more important than good health."

"Curiosity was not only not frowned upon, it was highly encouraged."

"What would you do if you really loved someone?"

"Nobody that ever lived has ever had a worse time than today if he is alive now."

"We generate our own light, or we sit in darkness."

"Experience is the best teacher."

"The wars, the failures, the betrayals all seem unimportant when we remember that we still have our memories."

"A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to die for it."