Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWriting a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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She was the captain of her soul
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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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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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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