William Faulkner Quotes

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

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• I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Responsibility
  • Show
  • Use

• I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • Writer
  • Just
  • Reader

• I don't use emojis. I go vintage.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Use
  • Go
  • Vintage

• It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

  

  Dan Brown
  • You
  • Reader
  • Tell

• I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Use
  • Custom
  • Gibson

• Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Loved

• Let students use technologies in the classroom.

  

  Weili Dai
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  • Students
  • Classroom

• But I love New York. I used to set my alarm clock when I was there, and get up at 4am and get a coffee, just because I could.

  

  Gail Porter
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  • Get
  • Could

• Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.

  

  Carlo Goldoni
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  • Wishes
  • Wanting

• I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Truth
  • Written
  • Reader

• You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Creativity
  • Use
  • Have

• Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Knowledge
  • Belief
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• If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more than demand that it shall be left in undisturbed possession of what the theologian and metaphysician please to term its 'legitimate field'. It claims that the whole range of phenomena, mental as well as physical-the entire universe-is its field. It asserts that the scientific method is the sole gateway to the whole region of knowledge.

  

  Karl Pearson
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Universe

• I've always been a fast reader. Now I had to do it slowly, discussing each sentence. And every time I wanted to change something I had to come up with an intelligent defense I could be pretty sure that they would turn my suggestion down, as they had so many aspects to keep in mind. However, if I argued well, I could have a chance. I had to think of every comma, every word.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Up
  • Acting
  • Rejection

• What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.

  

  Len Wein
  • Story
  • Reader
  • Effect

• What the use of having ignorance if you can't show it?

  

  Lou Costello
  • Ignorance
  • Shows
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• The last thing you want is an injured actor. That, or having to use a stuntman too much.

  

  Wade Eastwood
  • Want
  • Actors
  • Use

• Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy.

  

  Sara Willis
  • True
  • Reader
  • Dear

• Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?

  

  Boris Becker
  • Parents

• I've gone back and forth with fine-tuning the kind of conditioning I'm doing. Sometimes trying to shed weight and getting leaner and sometimes trying to pack on a little more muscle.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Trying
  • Sometimes
  • Doing

• A bomb makes more noise than a caress, but for each bomb that destroys, there are millions of caresses that nourish life.

  

  Facundo Cabral
  • Life
  • Noise
  • Bombs

• No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

  

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