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More Quotes by William Faulkner
Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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.
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.