No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.

Hunger is good discipline.

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.

As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notion of glory, nor if he wins far enough, will he find anything within himself.

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