Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
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More Quotes from William Faulkner
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.
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.
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.
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.
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a life.
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What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
It is none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
A person with a clear purpose will make progress on even the toughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress on even the smoothest road.
The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
