The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.
William FaulknerSurely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.
William FaulknerIt wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.
William FaulknerWhen something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off and there's nothing to the doing of them that leaves a man to say, That was not done before and it cannot be done again.
William Faulkner