I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
WILLIAM FAULKNERDon’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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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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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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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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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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The 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.
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Like 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.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
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Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
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