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. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
WILLIAM FAULKNERFear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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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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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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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 mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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