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 FAULKNERSome things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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She was the captain of her soul
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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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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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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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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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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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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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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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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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