Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
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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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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Try to be better than yourself.
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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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Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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History is not was, it is.
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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 most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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