Faulkner, William (1897 – 1962), US novelist
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews; the ones who want to write don’t have the time to read reviews.
The past is not dead. In fact, it’s not even past.
