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Writer Quotes by William Faulkner
- The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no…
- 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…
- Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he…
- Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with…
- The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience
- 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'…
- I think that-that anyone, the painter, the musician, the writer works in a-a kind of an-an insane fury. He's demon-driven. He can get up feeling…
- Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship and poverty they…
- Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
- A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
- 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…
- 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…
- A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
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