Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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