At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
WILLIAM FAULKNERSince man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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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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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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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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You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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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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