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 FAULKNERHow false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
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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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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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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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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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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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