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Why Quotes by William Faulkner
- Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's…
- At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself,…
- The poets are wrong of course […] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts:…
- Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be…
- The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man…
- With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working up…
- All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.…
- An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
- 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…
- She wouldn't say what we both knew. 'The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know…
- In the South you are ashamed of being a virgin. Boys. Men. They lie about it. Because it means less to women, Father said. He…
- A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
- Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.
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- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? — Billie Joe Armstrong
- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
- Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. — Frank Abagnale
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very… — Bashar al-Assad
- What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they… — David Attenborough
- The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to… — David Attenborough
- It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying… — David Attenborough
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood