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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERMemory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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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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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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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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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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A fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got. He’ll cling to trouble he’s used to before he’ll risk a change.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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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. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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