Quote #67
Kill your darlings.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from William Faulkner
- Civilization began with distillation.
- To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
- To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
- This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.
- The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
- The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
- The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
- Read, read, read. Read everything- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice …