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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERPerhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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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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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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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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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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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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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