Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHaunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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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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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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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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A 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.
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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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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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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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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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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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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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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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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on 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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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.
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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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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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