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Writing Quotes by William Faulkner
- If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.
- The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.
- 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,…
- I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust…
- The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.
- 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…
- 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
- 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…
- 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…
- Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
- 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.…
- I had learned a little about writing from Soldier's Pay - how to approach language, words: not with seriousness so much as an essayist does,…
- I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
- Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an…
- the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the…
- 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…
- In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
- Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
- 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…
- Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.
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