William Faulkner

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

“(The writer) must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed – love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice.”

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“Don’t be a writer — be writing.”

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A writer needs three things, experience, observation and imagination, any one of which, at times can supply the lack of the others”

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