Read, read read. Read everything.
WILLIAM FAULKNERJust 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.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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.
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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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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories.
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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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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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