You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.

The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.

It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea

There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.

It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.

Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.