Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
WILLIAM FAULKNERLike 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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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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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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