Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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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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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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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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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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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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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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She was the captain of her soul
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