The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
WILLIAM FAULKNERPeople to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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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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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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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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Read, read read. Read everything.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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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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No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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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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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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