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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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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 field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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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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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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