Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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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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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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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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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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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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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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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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Civilization begins with distillation
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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