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Write Quotes by William Faulkner
- The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.
- The only rule I have is to quit while it’s still hot. Never write yourself out. Always quit when it’s going good. Then it’s easier…
- 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…
- No man can write who is not first a humanitarian
- My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.
- You have to write badly in order to write well.
- 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…
- 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.…
- Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an…
- 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 poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding…
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