Easy writing makes hard reading.

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

Never mistake motive for action.

Your blood coagulates beautifully.

Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?