Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNow she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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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.
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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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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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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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