Ernest Hemingway

It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I'm not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.' She was crying. I comforted her and she stopped crying. But outside it kept on raining.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.

If you had stars inside your brain cells, you'd probably understand what I am talking about.

People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer?Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down.

Besides, I'm not jealous. I'm just so in love with you that there isn't anything else.

I felt very lonely when they were all there.

If my Valentine you won't be,I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.

Don't you believe I love you? Don't know how I can make you believe. I didn't want to kiss you goodbye--that was the trouble--I wanted to kiss you goodnight. […] Of course I love you. I love you all the time. […] I'd like to hold you and kiss you so that you wouldn't doubt whether I wanted to or not.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.