William Faulkner Quotes
The only rule I have is to quit while it’s still hot. Never write yourself out. Always quit when it’s going good. Then it’s easier to take it up again. If you exhaust yourself, then you’ll get into a dead spell and you’ll have trouble with it.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
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I really tend to write in retrospect.
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I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.
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My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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I just write mechanical things.
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Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
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My method is, I just sit down and write a book.
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Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?
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I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.
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I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
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I don't write books inadvertently.
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If we're lucky we realize that life is really about family - your children, your family and your friends. Without that, the rest is hollow.
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Does it matter how long they were together that night? To lovers, an hour can last a century. But even for lovers, every hour ends.
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Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses
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O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!
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With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century.
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The only rule I have is to quit while it’s still hot. Never write yourself out. Always quit when it’s going good. Then it’s easier to take it up again. If you exhaust yourself, then you’ll get into a dead spell and you’ll have trouble with it.
