The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
WILLIAM FAULKNERFear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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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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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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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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Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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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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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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