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“I only write when the spirit moves me ... and the spirit moves me every day. William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi”
William Faulkner“I only write when the spirit moves me ... and the spirit moves me every day. William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi”
William Faulkner“Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.”
William Faulkner“Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
William Faulkner“Civilization begins with distillation”
William Faulkner“The displacement of water is equal to the something of something.”
William Faulkner“Amid the pointing and the horror the clean flame.”
William Faulkner“[B]ecause the second time I ever saw you I learned what I had read in books but I never had actually believed: that love and suffering are the same thing and that the value of love is the sum of what you have to pay for it and anytime you get it cheap you have cheated yourself.”
William Faulkner“Pleasure, ecstasy, they cannot seem to bear: their escape from it is in violence, in drinking and fighting and apparently inescapable----And so why should not their religion drive them to crucifixion of themselves and one another? he thinks.”
William Faulkner“Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them.”
Kelli Jae Baeli, Don't Fall in Love With Your Words: Fall in Love With Your Craft“I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. Faulkner and Frost were the very peaks of American poetry and fiction in the 20th century.”
Jay Parini