William Faulkner Quotes
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After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
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I never read about photography.
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
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I try to steal from the best. Suck it all in. 'Taxi Driver' is really a bible for film actors, a master class. A lot of emotional power, a lot of emotional depth but it's contained and you just see the tip of the iceberg.
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.
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I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.
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Faith is the biggest principle that the Bible teaches us.
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Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.
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I would read all day if I could.
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You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
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If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.
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I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'
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An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes.
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I often don't read reviews.
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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I read Spider-Man, and that's how I knew about Wilson Fisk.
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I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.
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My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God - he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.
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The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.
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Once I’m done with a book, I’m done! I’m just not a sequel kind of girl. By the time I’ve finished a book I’ve read it so many times that it’s time to move on.
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A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.
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There isn't a book that has changed me, but I have favourites such as 'Pride and Prejudice' which I often re-read.
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Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.
