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 FAULKNERWho gathers the withered rose?
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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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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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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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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