I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.

People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.

The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought

I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.

I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.