I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAt one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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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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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail…because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
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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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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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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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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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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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