More Quotes by William Faulkner
In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
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.
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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.
I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
