William Faulkner Quotes

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail

An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk.

No one knows what's a good idea or a bad idea until you try it.

The only way you improve is to try new things.

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

Be brave enough to create.

You need courage to be creative. You need the courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone, if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity.

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

In writing, I've found, playing it safe and familiar is no way to energize anybody.

I have always had an instinct for doing new things. Call it good or bad, I love to experiment.

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

In a sense, if you're not getting it wrong really a lot when you're creating imaginary futures, then you're just not doing it enough. You're not creating enough imaginary futures.