The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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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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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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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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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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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History is not was, it is.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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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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