[In 1941,] For Whom the Bell Tolls ... a style so mannered and eccentric as to be frequently absurd |
A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. |
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. |
A man can be destroyed but not defeated. |
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. |
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl. |
A writer's problem does not change. It is always how to write truly and having found out what is true to project it in such a way that it becomes part of the experience of the person who reads it. |
Across the River and Into the Trees. |
Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time). |
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, |
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened. |
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. |
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. |
All our words from loose using have lost their edge |
All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault. |