William Faulkner Quotes
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
Quotes to Explore
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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I'm really enamored with the idea of a reformed society, and I've always been fascinated with the Dark Ages as well as the power vacuum that followed the fall of the Roman Empire.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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Jacqueline Rose was so wonderful in so many ways, and I was really blessed to be her daughter. Of all the things I am because of her - there's no question: I am a writer because of her love of books.
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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Women who have abortions are people you know. Because that is the truth! One in three American women will have an abortion by menopause.
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I believe in a strong national defense. But it's my belief that neither Iraq nor Afghanistan poses a threat to national security, and we shouldn't be involved in either area.
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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I'm used to people talking about me.
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The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the character.
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Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his servants, and the Everlasting Gospel is mightier in power to save than our narrow finite minds can comprehend.
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Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
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I've learned from life experiences. If you go through certain things, you're able to pull from them.
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I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don't allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
