The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
WILLIAM FAULKNERGood ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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She was the captain of her soul
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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It’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.
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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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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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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