An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
WILLIAM FAULKNERJust like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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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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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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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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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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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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