The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got it or not.
WILLIAM FAULKNERLet the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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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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No one individual can tell the truth.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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