"Get busy living or get busy dying."
— Stephen King (Shawshank Redemption)

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

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
— Ernest Hemingway

"About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."
— Ernest Hemingway (Death in the Afternoon)

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

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
— Stephen King

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. "
— George Orwell