William Faulkner Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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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've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
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When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her letters, the DVD extras peddled by publishers.
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I've never experienced writer's block. When it's going really well, my body temperature goes up, and I'm flushed. I get quite delirious.
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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
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I'm not a great writer.
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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
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I'm a very conceptual writer.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.
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A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfilment in the creative work.
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The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.
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I've always lived by the creed that you're never a failure in life when you fall as long as you try and get up.
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In every writer there is a certain amount of the scavenger.
