Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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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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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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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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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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