Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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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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For 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…
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He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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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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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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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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Don’t do what you can do – try what you can’t do.
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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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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
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But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
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Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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