William Faulkner Quotes
I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.William Faulkner
Quotes to Explore
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
Rachel Cusk -
One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
Sam Harris -
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
E. L. Doctorow -
The congressmen and senators used to go have a drink in D.C. They would disagree all day long, but they would find that time to sit down and learn about each other personally. I think that's totally wiped out; I don't think it really exists anymore.
Zach Galifianakis -
On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.
Ramon Rodriguez -
I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
Hannah Kent
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
Damien Chazelle -
From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.
Keinan Abdi Warsame -
Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.
Victoria Jackson -
A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
Irwin Shaw -
I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.
Laura Dekker -
You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
Vince Gill
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I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
P. J. Harvey -
People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.
Hale Irwin -
If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
Earl Hamner, Jr. -
The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
Dag Hammarskjold -
Most of my life, I've been on a film set. There isn't anything to learn, not learn, unlearn. It's just in me.
Samantha Morton -
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Samuel Johnson
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Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.
Patricia Hill Collins -
This time around was different. Daron brought a song in and we had to record it the next day. I just wasn't about it and I didn't do it perfectly. It took some time, or I wanted to play it a different way and the song had not been developed yet. I had to get it. It was more work-oriented and less about a vibe and art.
Shavarsh "Shavo" Odadjian Achozen -
For the last ten years or more, I've really been making shopping decisions based on, "Is that what I want to wear forever?" I tend to not have these quick one - night stands or affairs with fashion, because it never suits me anyway. I tend to shop, specifically with heels or shoes, for things that I think, "Yeah, this is a long - term relationship.".
Sarah Jessica Parker -
I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced.
Wally Schirra -
Even though there's stuff that I really like that is just a retro sort of style or whatever, I feel like what I'm most excited by is new mixes of things.
Noah Benjamin Lennox Animal Collective -
I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.
William Faulkner