Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
WILLIAM FAULKNERPerhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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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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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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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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No one individual can tell the truth.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
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