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 FAULKNERThe salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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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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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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The 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.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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