William Faulkner on writing

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

Clocks slay time. … Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau1712–1778

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Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

C. S. Lewis1898–1963

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin1706–1790

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