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INTERVIEWER
What technique do you use to arrive at your standard?
FAULKNER
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
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| Anton Chekhov, Malcolm Cowley, Ernest Hemingway, Georges Simenon, Sherwood Anderson, Honoré de Balzac, Thomas Campion, Miguel de Cervantes, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, John Donne, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Theodore Dreiser, Gustave Flaubert, George Harris, Robert Herrick, Homer, Laurence Housman, Ben Jonson, James Joyce, John Keats, Thomas Mann, Christopher Marlowe, Herman Melville, George Orwell, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain |
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