The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything.

The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.

I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.

To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.

Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.

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

To be able to say: I loved this person, we had a hell of a nice time together, it's over but in a way it will never be over and I do know that I for sure loved this person, to be able to say that and mean it, that's rare. That's rare and valuable.