William Faulkner Quotes
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.
Quotes to Explore
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They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
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People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.
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When 'Romeo and Juliet' came along, I fell in love with the way that it was written and how innocent and vulnerable it was and how different it was from 'True Grit.' I really liked that.
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I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
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I've always written down how I feel.
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Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.
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I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.
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Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.
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Great songs aren't written, they're rewritten
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I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.
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What stands out to me most about Maya Angelou is not what she has done or written or spoken; it's how she lived her life. She moved through the world with unshakable calm, confidence and a fierce grace.
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What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.
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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
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The fact that I have a lot of songs written doesn't keep me from wanting to write new ones, or new ones from coming.
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I don't have anything against this Jesus guy, but has he written, directed, and starred in his own movie?
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"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."
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I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.
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Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.
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The world in your mind is as real as the world outside of it.
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To work is simple enough; but to rest, there is the difficulty.
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If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.
