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.
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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.
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
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.
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.
Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
