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

Quote by William Faulkner

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I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since...

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since...

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on...

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on...

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my...

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my...

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept...

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept...

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better...

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better...

The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.

The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.

The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in...

The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in...

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon...

I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon...

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better...

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better...

Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the...

Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the...

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of...

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of...

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in...

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in...

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper,...

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper,...

I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in...

I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in...

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or...

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or...

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the...

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the...

It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my...

It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my...

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at...

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at...

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice