„The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write.“

— Ernest Hemingway
„You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?''Write how you are but make it straight.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„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“
— Ernest Hemingway
„You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean – hell, I know that.“
— Stephen King
„If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows, and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things only because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know."“
— Ernest Hemingway