Ernest Hemingway

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.