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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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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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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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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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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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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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I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
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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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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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