A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
WILLIAM FAULKNERLet 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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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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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.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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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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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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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History is not was, it is.
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