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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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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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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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 say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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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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