Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
WILLIAM FAULKNERLife is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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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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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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