Writing Quotes by William Faulkner
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William Faulkner says reading is like a carpenter learning a trade—study trash, classics, good and bad. He describes writing as a mix of imagination, experience, and observation, and compares a first draft to building a house in a strong wind. He also feels a writer’s job is to lift a reader’s heart.
![“He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed…” quote by William Faulkner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b32/william-faulkner-306_all-things_he-the-writer-must-teach-himself-that-th_1547279.jpg)
![“He is the greatest artist the South has produced.… Indeed, through his many novels and short stories, Faulkner fights out the moral problem which was repressed after the nineteenth century [yet] for all his concern with the South, Faulkner was actually seeking out the nature of man. Thus we must…” quote by William Faulkner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cf/william-faulkner-306_art_he-is-the-greatest-artist-the-south-has_2640538.jpg)
![“[T]he young man or woman writing today has forgotten 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. He must learn them again. He must teach himself that the basest of all things is…” quote by William Faulkner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e6/william-faulkner-306_compassion_t-he-young-man-or-woman-writing-today-ha_1217428.jpg)
