I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
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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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All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
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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 only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
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To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
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Wonder. Go on and wonder.
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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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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
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She was the captain of her soul
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