I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.
William FaulknerAn artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
William FaulknerAn artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
William FaulknerA bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work stationโฆ.
William FaulknerAlways dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done. The writer's only responsibility is to his art.
William Faulkner