A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf a story is in you, it has to come out.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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