Ernest Hemingway

"All good people are lonely."

"Hemingway noted that working hard at your craft is the only real solution."

"The first draft of anything is always garbage."

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."

"Hemingway said that success is getting what you want, but happiness is wanting what you get."

"The most important thing is the prose, not the plot."

"You must be prepared to work hard in silence."

"The past is a guide to understanding the present."

"Hemingway believed that observation is the key to understanding human nature."

"A person with outward courage may be inwardly terrified."

"The ability to endure is more important than strength."

"Hemingway said that money ruins as many people as it helps."

"A writer must tell the truth as he sees it."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"Hemingway believed that age is no barrier to reinvention."

"A man learns what he needs to know by the time he's dead."

"The sea provides all the philosophy one needs."

"Hemingway noted that the rich are different, but not in ways that matter much."

"Writing about war teaches you about peace."

"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention."

"Hemingway said that in writing, you must earn the reader's trust through truth."

"Fear is the only thing worth conquering in life."

"The secret to good writing is honest observation."

"Hemingway believed that love is learning to walk in someone else's shoes."

"A writer's power comes from his ability to make readers feel something real."

"There is nothing noble in being superior to other people; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

"Hemingway noted that time changes everything except the fundamental human desire for meaning."

"The most interesting people are those who have suffered deeply."

"An old man's death is not an event as important as his life."

"Hemingway said that the greatest gift to your children is showing them how to live with grace."