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 FAULKNERWho gathers the withered rose?
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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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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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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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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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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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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