Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If all people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.
The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don’t have the time to read reviews.
- Topic: Criticism
More Quotes from William Faulkner
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a life.
It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you—religion, pride, anything—it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
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How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.
The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failings than to point out those of others.
