William Faulkner Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
-
I never read about photography.
-
I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
-
I try to steal from the best. Suck it all in. 'Taxi Driver' is really a bible for film actors, a master class. A lot of emotional power, a lot of emotional depth but it's contained and you just see the tip of the iceberg.
-
I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
-
For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.
-
I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.
-
Faith is the biggest principle that the Bible teaches us.
-
Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.
-
I would read all day if I could.
-
You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
-
If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.
-
I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'
-
An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes.
-
I often don't read reviews.
-
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
-
I read Spider-Man, and that's how I knew about Wilson Fisk.
-
I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.
-
When I was in elementary school, I was a big fan of the zip-off pants that could be turned into shorts. The Delia's catalog used to be my bible.
-
To her British lover about to climb in bed with 80-something Mae: She said that she hoped soon to be able to say what Paul Revere said - 'The British are coming'. This was the last one-liner Mae ever uttered on film.
-
Many people don't know our famous 'soup kitchen' episode on Seinfeld was inspired by an actual soup restaurant off 8th Avenue in New York.
-
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.
-
Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
-
Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.
