I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTry to be better than yourself.
More William Faulkner Quotes
-
-
The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
WILLIAM FAULKNER






