Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
WILLIAM FAULKNERMy own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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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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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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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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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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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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