Ernest Hemingway

The world breaks everyone, and afterward some are strong at the broken places.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honour.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Man is not made for defeat.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

The great thing is to last and get your work done, and see and hear and understand and write when there is something that you know and not before and not too damn much afterwards.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that it all happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstacy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.