More Quotes by 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.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
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.
The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.
I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.
Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
