I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house.

The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.

And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?

Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.