The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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 your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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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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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
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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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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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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won’t fail to see a chance to meddle.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
WILLIAM FAULKNER