Ernest Hemingway

"You wouldn't believe it. It's like a wonderful nightmare.'Sure,' I said. 'I'd believe anything. Including nightmares.' 'What's the matter? Feel low?'Low as hell."

"No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful."

"I knew how severe I had been and how bad things had been. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one who poverty bothers."

"Trying to write something of permanent value is a full-time job."