The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?

How lazily the sun goes down in Granada, it hides beneath the water, it conceals in the Alhambra!

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.

How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.