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

"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good."

"You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults."

"Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing."

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