The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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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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The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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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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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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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 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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