There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.
Ernest HemingwayI do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.
Ernest HemingwayTo stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.
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