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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
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
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 everythingWhat 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