Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.
Ernest HemingwayThere is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
Ernest HemingwayWorry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.
Ernest HemingwayFish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?
Ernest HemingwayAll good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
Ernest Hemingway