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Writers Quotes by William Faulkner
- The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.
- 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 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 never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
- 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…
- A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
- 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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