Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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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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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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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 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 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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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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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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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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