"I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants……" — William Faulkner

"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 demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing."

William Faulkner

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