Ernest Hemingway — "When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen."

"Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination."

"There are some things that cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring."

"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water."

"You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another."

"The hardest thing in the world to do is to write straight honest prose about human beings."