We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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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Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
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A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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Read, read read. Read everything.
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I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
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Civilization begins with distillation
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
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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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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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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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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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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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