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.
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
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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.
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Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.
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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
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I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.
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You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
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If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
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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.
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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.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.
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You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.
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My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.
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When I was at U.C.L.A., I decided I was going to go to Japan and learn Japanese.
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If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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I can't do the frappuccino. It's too sweet. I need it straight.
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There's no rule that everyone has to change.
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My tenure at 'The Daily Show' started during the decade after September 11, and fear of Muslims was at an all-time high. Politicians and the media seemed to dial the fright, mistrust, and animosity up to a fever pitch to gain votes and ratings.
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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.
