William Faulkner Quotes

'I never feel the need to discuss my work with anyone. No, I am too busy writing it. It has got to please me and if it does I don't need to talk about it. If it doesn't please me, talking about it won't improve it, since the only thing to improve it is to work on it some more. I am not a literary man but only a writer. I don't get any pleasure from talking shop.

William Faulkner

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• Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Small
  • Light
  • Cooking

• I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our Bronte period. My mum is from Yorkshire, and we would go up to the Moors. It tapped into our romantic visions of ourselves.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Up
  • Writing
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• I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Comfortable

• Unfortunately, we can never truly know if we're making the right decision. What we do know is that wherever we are, that's where the Light wants us to be. It's the best place for us to be now. And as long as we don't try to control the situation, then we won't end up in the place we shouldn't be.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • Long
  • Light

• I was in a convent for a year.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Year
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• When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
  • Love
  • Girl
  • I Love

• I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Men
  • Women
  • Strong

• I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.

  

  Gary Carter
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Rock

• Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Home
  • Myself
  • Boy

• Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.

  

  Jack Hannah
  • People
  • Water
  • Animals

• When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Think
  • Government
  • Just

• Once you start a war, you have to win.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • War
  • Win
  • Start

• 'Steve Jobs' is my seventh movie. I believe, if you added them up, I don't think there is more than a total of 10 minutes that takes place in a person's home. They're all in offices, courtrooms, laboratories, things like that.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Home

• We try to write things that work on a variety of levels at the same time: A sleek exterior with a turbulent lyric.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Time
  • Work
  • Same

• 'Watchmen' is like the music you feel is written just for you. 'That's my song, no one else gets that but me.' That's why the fan base is so rabid, because they feel personal about it.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Fan

• I'm extremely introverted. I used to think it was shyness, but I got over that, so it must be door No. 2. It's still hard for me to be away from home much, and I have to make sure I get lots of time alone in my room when I'm touring.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Time
  • Home
  • Alone

• Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I don't necessarily need Hollywood.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Need
  • Hollywood
  • Necessarily

• We had already planned my wedding when my brother passed away in 2012. When you're grieving, you don't necessarily want to think about something like that, but my brother told me that he wanted me to, so we went ahead and did it.

  

  Yaya DaCosta
  • Think
  • Brother
  • Wedding

• The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Winning
  • Mistake
  • Suppose

• It's true we don't know what we've got until its gone, but we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Love
  • Pain
  • Pleasure

• Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign. ... You must weep that your own government, at present, seems blind to this truth.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Humanity
  • Pleasure
  • Parent

• I adore gelato; it's a pleasure I shared for years with my friend Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

  

  Monica Vitti
  • Friend
  • Pleasure
  • Adore

• 'I never feel the need to discuss my work with anyone. No, I am too busy writing it. It has got to please me and if it does I don't need to talk about it. If it doesn't please me, talking about it won't improve it, since the only thing to improve it is to work on it some more. I am not a literary man but only a writer. I don't get any pleasure from talking shop.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Pleasure
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  • Discuss