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.
A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.
I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.
When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
Viva my husband who was Mayor of this town
To be able to say: I loved this person, we had a hell of a nice time together, it’s over but in a way it will never be over and I do know that I for sure loved this person, to be able to say that and...
They all wanted something that i did not want and i would get it without wanting it, if it worked.
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to...
Then, while the old man was clearing the lines and preparing the harpoon, the male fish jumped high into the air beside the boat to see where the female was and then went down deep, his lavender wings...
Then too you are in love. Do not forget that is a religious feeling.
The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.
The professor at the boxing gymnasium wore mustaches and was very precise and jerky and went all to pieces if you started after him.
The old man's head was clear and good now and he was full of resolution but he had little hope. It was too good to last, he thought. He took one look at the great fish as he watched the shark close in...
The old man opened his eyes and for a moment he was coming back from a long way away. Then he smiled.
The best sky was in Italy or Spain and in Northern Michigan in the fall
That's all we do, isn't it -- look at things and try new drinks?
That I am a foreigner is not my fault. I would rather have been born here.
Que va, the boy said. There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only you.
Of all men the drunkard is the foulest. The thief when he is not stealing is like another. The extortioner does not practice in the home. The murderer when he is at home can wash his hands. But the dr...