Life Quotes

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

William Faulkner

I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will le...

William Faulkner

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

William Faulkner

No man can write who is not first a humanitarian

William Faulkner

If a story is in you, it has to come out.

William Faulkner

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.

William Faulkner

Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.

William Faulkner

In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

William Faulkner

I am not a hero, O.K.? I am not a hero. I am a very ordinary person.

Wael Ghonim

By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

Walter Gilbert

In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.

Walter Gilbert

The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.

Walter Gilbert

The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.

Walter Gilbert

Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.

Walter Gilbert

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

Walter Gilbert

We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.

Walter Gilbert

We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.

Walter Gilbert

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

Walter Gropius

Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.

Walter Gropius

I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

Walton Goggins

I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools. I try to be aware about the consumption of unnecessary things in a consumptive culture.

Walton Goggins