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."