Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.
Arthur Helps
If I were related to Monet, I don't know if I would be comfortable becoming an artist because it's too much, the comparison. If I wrote a... →
Dree Hemingway
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Ernest Hemingway
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will... →
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good... →
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened.
Mariel Hemingway
The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was... →
To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.
Aleksandar Hemon