Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWriting a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
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Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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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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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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The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
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Try to be better than yourself.
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I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
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My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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