Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
WILLIAM FAULKNERBelieve that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
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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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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
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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 best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
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The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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