WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:14:05 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg stretch goal – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Faulkner, William -- “The Art of Fiction No. 12,” interview by Jean Stein, The Paris Review (Spring 1956) https://wist.info/faulkner-william/61982/ https://wist.info/faulkner-william/61982/#respond Mon, 17 Jul 2023 15:48:13 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=61982 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.


William Faulkner (1897-1962) American novelist
“The Art of Fiction No. 12,” interview by Jean Stein, The Paris Review (Spring 1956)
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On being a good novelist. ]]> https://wist.info/faulkner-william/61982/feed/ 0 61982 Brault, Robert -- (Attributed) https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/43913/ https://wist.info/brault-robert-b/43913/#respond Tue, 27 Oct 2020 15:15:19 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=43913 How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.


Robert Brault (b. c. 1945) American aphorist, programmer
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