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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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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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