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Famous William Faulkner Quotes
“Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.”
“When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't.”
“Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.”
“That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.”
“I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.”
“A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.”
“Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.”
“Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.”
“A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.”
“The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself”
“The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.”
“When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.”
“If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.”
“The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.”