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 only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.

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.

Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

A bottle of wine was good company.

I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.