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Want Quotes by William Faulkner
- The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.
- If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is…
- Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he…
- It's the most satisfying occupation man has discovered yet, because you never can quite do it as well as you want to, so there's always…
- I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most…
- The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to…
- 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…
- The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old…
- 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…
- Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no…
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