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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.

William Faulkner

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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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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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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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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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