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“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 and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.”

William Faulkner quotes (American short-story Writer and Novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, 1897-1962)

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“To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.”

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“I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.”

William Faulkner quotes (American short-story Writer and Novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, 1897-1962)

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“The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then.”

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“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”

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“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”

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“I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read”

Thomas Babington Macaulay quotes (English Historian, 1800-1859)

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“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes (American Writer. Author of The Great Gatsby. 1896-1940)

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“We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.”

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“The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement”

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“I don't like to write, but I love to have written”

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