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In His Own Words
To Young Writers
"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 short cut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error."
Excerpted from Lion in the Garden: Interviews with William Faulkner, 1926–1962, Edited by James B. Meriwether and Michael Millgate.
Permissions granted by Jill Faulkner Summers and Lee Caplin/Picture Entertainment Corp., www.pictureentertainment.com. © Copyright 2005, Jill Faulkner Summers. All rights reserved.
