William Faulkner
"In writing, you must kill all your darlings."
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"In writing, you must kill all your darlings."
William Faulkner
"Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window."
William Faulkner
"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."
William Faulkner
"The best fiction is far more true than any journalism."
William Faulkner
"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth."
William Faulkner
"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
William Faulkner
"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."
William Faulkner
"A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid."
William Faulkner
"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
William Faulkner
"You donβt love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults."
William Faulkner
"The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten."
William Faulkner
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