Just 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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERFacts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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 writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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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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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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