Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYour illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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 is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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