William Faulkner Quotes

I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.

William Faulkner

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• Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • World
  • Want
  • Better

• Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Passion
  • Moral
  • Better

• Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Up
  • Real
  • Kids

• What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Work
  • Think
  • Better

• The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Better
  • Destiny
  • Self

• I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Best
  • Better
  • Find

• A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Men
  • War
  • Better

• It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago. With spirituality comes morals, a better way of thinking.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Thinking
  • Technology
  • Better

• Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Peace
  • Better
  • Nothing

• My coach and I thought I could swim a 57.3 if I executed the perfect race, but I did even better than that.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Perfect
  • Thought
  • Better

• Well, it'd certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Better
  • Talk
  • Irony

• I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Work
  • Always
  • Better

• I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Me
  • Name
  • Wrong

• Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • World
  • Think
  • Better

• Even in an enlightened democracy, the media have to check themselves to make sure they are not contributing to an unnecessary mass hysteria.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Democracy
  • Media
  • Sure

• I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Church
  • Service
  • Better

• ArcGIS Online is the complete hosted GIS in the cloud, supporting mapping and apps. Additions to this component have included smart mapping, formal metadata, better administration, and high-performance geocoding.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • High
  • Better
  • Smart

• Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people died because buses and emergency shelters wouldn't allow their animals.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Better
  • Animals

• Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.

  

  Ted Turner
  • You
  • Better
  • Just Because

• You had to stay awake married to Humphrey Bogart. Every time I thought I could relax and do everything I wanted, he'd buck. There was no way to predict his reactions, no matter how well I knew him. As he'd said before our wedding, he expected to be happily married and stay that way, but he never expected to settle down. He liked keeping people off balance. He was good for me -- I could never be quite sure what he would do.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Balance
  • Married
  • Relax

• That emphasis, from my parents, was always, "if you want something different from this" - they didn't say "better than this," because I'm not sure that they knew anything better, "then get an education."

  

  David C. Driskell
  • Parents
  • Education
  • Better

• What people love about Santorum is he is who is he. He speaks his words. He loves God. He loves his country, and he loves gays.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • God
  • Country

• I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.

  

  Becky G
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Better
  • Sure
  • Rewrite