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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
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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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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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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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