If a story is in you, it has to come out.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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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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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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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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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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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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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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