If a story is in you, it has to come out.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWriting a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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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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Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
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Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
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Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
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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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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
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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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