Ernest Hemingway — "When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead."

"Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates."

"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."

"Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you are a lucky man to remember it."

"Write drunk, edit sober."

"It's fun to get to know people who are very different from you."