Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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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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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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 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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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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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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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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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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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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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 only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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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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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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