The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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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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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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