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 FAULKNERNo matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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The past is never dead, it is not even past.
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The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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No one individual can tell the truth.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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