The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.

I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.

Never fall in love?""Always," said the count. "I am always in love.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.

All thinking men are atheists.

This is a good place," he said."There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.

There isnt always an explanation for everything.

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

I never trust frank and simple people whose stories hold together.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.

Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

The first draft of anything is shit.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

Remember to get the weather in your damn book--weather is very important.

There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.

If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.

People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.

Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.

What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader

You know you’re writing well when you’re throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.

Madame, it is always a mistake to know an author. (p.215)

You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know

Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.

I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and Strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to do; we never did such things.

What is an hour?''More to me than to him.''An hour is the same.

Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.