William Faulkner Quotes
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.
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I don't use emojis. I go vintage.
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What I see now is the consumerisation of IT. I don't want my company to tell me that I have to use a BlackBerry or I have to use a Windows phone. I just want to use the phone I want and have it all work.
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It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.
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I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.
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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.
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Let students use technologies in the classroom.
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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.
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Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.
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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.'
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You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
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Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.
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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.
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I've never been damaged or hurt by press. It's just that I think it's unfair to use your name in media.
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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.
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I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.
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Most of those mocking us and our works night after night have not reached the point of suggesting we are going to use those weapons. They are pretty useless right now.
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In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World.
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This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
