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The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself

The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself

William Faulkner
Heart, Writing, Conflict

The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

William Faulkner
Hope, Writing, Heart
Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, 10 Dec. 1950

the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat

William Faulkner
Writing, Heart, Agony
Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, 10 Dec. 1950

It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.

William Faulkner
Heart, Men, Privilege
William Faulkner, Joseph L. Fant, Robert Paul Ashley (1964). “Faulkner at West Point”, p.46, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart.

William Faulkner
Heart, Riches, Faces
William Faulkner (1954). “The Best of Faulkner”

Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat. He must learn them again.

William Faulkner
Writing, Heart, Men
Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature, originally delivered December 10, 1950 in Stockholm Sweden

He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed - love and honor and pity and compassion and sacrifice. See Poets & Writers

William Faulkner
Teaching, Heart, Sacrifice
Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, 10 Dec. 1950

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