The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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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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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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