The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERFor every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…
More William Faulkner Quotes
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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.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
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I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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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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Yes. A man will talk about how he’d like to escape from living folks. But it’s the dead folks that do him the damage. It’s the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
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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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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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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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