There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
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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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Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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