Only when the clock stops does time come to life
WILLIAM FAULKNERRead, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
More William Faulkner Quotes
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Who gathers the withered rose?
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
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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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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
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The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
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Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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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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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
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She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
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Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
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Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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