Let 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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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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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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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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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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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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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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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