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."
"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not 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."
"Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing."
"A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid."