Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHe has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
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War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
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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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The ideal woman which is in every man’s mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand.
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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
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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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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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 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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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
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