More quotes by William Faulkner

"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."
"You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults."
"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
"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."
"A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid."