Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or p... - William Faulkner

"The best fiction is far more true than any journalism."

"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth."

"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's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window."

"A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid."

"If a story is in you, it has to come out."