Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
WILLIAM FAULKNERBe scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
WILLIAM FAULKNERSo, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
WILLIAM FAULKNERRead, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf a story is in you, it has to come out.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf 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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYour illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAlways dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf there is a God what the hell is He for?
WILLIAM FAULKNERGratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
WILLIAM FAULKNERBecause no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
WILLIAM FAULKNER