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All artist of some measure contemplative. — Evelyn Underhill

If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist. — Jenny Holzer

The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't. — William Faulkner

History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth. — Jill Lepore

You make me want things that I'd forgotten I wanted. — Ella Frank

If you are going to write, write about human nature. That is the only thing that doesn't date. — William Faulkner

I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day. — William Faulkner

Who in the world wants to run a country where the new norm is one where there are no jobs? — Rush Limbaugh

My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write. — William Faulkner

I lived in Koreatown for five years, and I lived blocks away from about seven karaoke bars. — David Walton

When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't. — William Faulkner

If a story is in you, it has to come out. — William Faulkner

I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway. — Joyce Carol Oates

I only write when the spirit moves me ... and the spirit moves me every day. William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi — William Faulkner

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid. — William Faulkner

You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship. — Chris Martin

In writing, you must kill all your darlings. — William Faulkner

That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading. — William Faulkner

Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind. — William Faulkner

Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing. — William Faulkner

I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it. — William Faulkner

When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar. — William Faulkner

Writing is one-third imagination, one-third experience, and one third observation. — William Faulkner

When it comes to you
I can't help myself
I've never been this
attached
to someone's flaws — Audrey Rey

The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with. — William Faulkner

Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them. — Kelli Jae Baeli

What about when you miss someone? Where does that come from? It comes from love. — Art Hochberg

I wanted to write about the experiences of the poor and the black and the rural people of the South. — Jesmyn Ward

Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing. — William Faulkner

The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost. — William Faulkner

Everything is everything
What is meant to be, will be
After winter, must come spring
Change, it comes eventually — Lauryn Hill

No man can write who is not first a humanitarian — William Faulkner

You have to write badly in order to write well. — William Faulkner

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us. — William Faulkner

Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues. — P. J. O'Rourke

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good. — William Faulkner

Write drunk (on emotion); edit sober (on rationality and intention).
Faulkner, reimagined by me. — Christina Cooke

In writing, you must kill your darlings. — William Faulkner