The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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