"Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over wi..." — Ernest Hemingway

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.