Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNever be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
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They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
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How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
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Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
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The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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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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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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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. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
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It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
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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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If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
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