I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.

Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.

Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.

I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

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.

We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.