25th September: William Faulkner

This date in 1897 saw the birth of William Faulkner. Here are some words of wisdom from him:

1. You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
2. You must walk up the hills so you can ride down.
3. Always 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.
4. You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.
5. You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
6. Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.
7. A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
8. A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station…
9. The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
10. An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.