Novelist

Bedakan antara pergerakan dan tindakan.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

Kebahagiaan pada orang cerdas adalah hal paling langka yang saya tahu.

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.

Inilah yang kita seharunya lakukan ketika kita dalam situasi terbaik lakukanlah segalanya tapi buatlah segala sesuatu dengan benar sehingga di kemudian hari, akan terjadi seperti itu.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

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

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

Jangan pernah bepergian dengan siapapun yang tidak Anda cintai.

Saya tahu sekarang bahwa tidak ada satu hal pun yang benar - itu semua benar.

Pertarungan banteng bukanlah olahraga. Seharusnya tidak pernah begitu. Itu adalah sebuah tragedi.

Seorang penulis fiksi merupakan seorang pembohong alami yang menemukan sesuatu dari pengetahuannya atau dari orang lain.

Mereka menulis di hari-hari lalu bahwa mati bagi negara adalah hal yang manis dan pantas. Tapi di peperangan modern, tidak ada hal yang manis maupun pantas dalam kematianmu. Kamu akan mati seperti seekor anjing yang mati tanpa alasan yang baik.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

Semua buku bagus memiliki satu kesamaan - mereka lebih benar jika mereka benar-benar terjadi.

'For Whom the Bell Tolls' was a problem which I carried on each day. I knew what was going to happen in principle. But I invented what happened each day I wrote.