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Any Quotes by William Faulkner
- I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you…
- 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…
- The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'…
- Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a…
- There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event…
- He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word…
- A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the…
- The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
- I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and…
- A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of…
- It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.
- Because there is something in the touch of flesh with flesh which abrogates, cuts sharp and straight across the devious intricate channels of decorous ordering,…
- The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes…
- any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead…
- It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like these college professors…
- If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.
- I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what…
- Vivian Rutledge: Speaking of horses, I like to play them myself. I like to see them work out a little first. See if they're front…
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