If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
Ernest HemingwayAll modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
Ernest HemingwayUntil you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.
Ernest HemingwayHow do you tell a valuable French book?' 'First there are the pictures. Then it is a question of the quality of the pictures. Then it is the binding. If a book is good, the owner will have it bound properly. All books in English are bound, but bound badly. There is no way of judging them.
Ernest Hemingway