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There are two
kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths,
and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
-- Cliff Fadiman
American Writer
The first
thing an unpublished author should remember is that no one
asked him to write in the first place. With this firmly in
mind, he has no right to become discouraged just because
other people are being published.
-- John Farrar
My own
experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are
paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
-- William Faulkner
1897-1962, American Novelist
If I had not
existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway,
Dostoevski, all of us.
-- William Faulkner
1897-1962, American Novelist
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If a writer
has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the ''Ode on a
Grecian Urn'' is worth any number of old ladies.
-- William Faulkner
1897-1962, American Novelist
I never know
what I think about something until I read what I've written
on it.
-- William Faulkner
1897-1962, American Novelist
The writer's
only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely
ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. Everything
goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security,
happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to
rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian
Urn is worth any number of old ladies.
-- William Faulkner
1897-1962, American Novelist
Life cannot
defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself
is a writer's love until death.
-- Edna Ferber
1887-1968, American Author
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