There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
The first draft of anything is shit.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
To understand is to forgive.
Then there was the smell of heather crushed and the roughness of the bent stalks under her head and the sun bright on her closed eyes and all his life he would remember the curve of her throat with he...
Then I started to think in Lipp’s about when I had first been able to write a story about losing everything. It was up in Cortina d’Ampezzo when I had come back to join Hadley there after the spring s...
Nick drank the coffee, the coffee according to Hopkins. The coffee was bitter. Nick laughed. It made a good ending to the story. His mind was starting to work. He knew he could choke it because he was...
Man is not much beside the great birds and beasts.
It was necessary that I leave Schruns and go to New York to rearrange publishers. I did my business inNew York and when I got back to Paris I should have caught the first train from the Gare de 1'Est...
In those days, there was no money to buy books.
In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did notcompletely trust anyone.
I wish it had been a dream now and that I had never hooked the fish and was alone in bed on the newspapers.
I thought she was probably a little crazy. It was all right if she was. I did not care what I was getting into.
Good-bye, you chaps, Mike said. It was a damned fine fiesta.So long, Mike, Bill said.I’ll see you around, I said.Don’t worry about money, Mike said. You can pay for the car, Jake, and I’ll send you my...
But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to t...
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.
I drink to make other people more interesting.