„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
„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
„In order for this to happen, your entire frame of reference will have to change, and you will be forced to surrender many things that you now scarcely know you have.“
— James Baldwin
„All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„You are you that is truer than true“
— Dr. Seuss
„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
„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
„Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.“
— Dr. Seuss