William Faulkner Quotes

I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.

William Faulkner

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• I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Life
  • Love
  • Dad

• Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Interest
  • Duty
  • Holy

• Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.

  

  Yael Stone
  • People
  • Different
  • Together

• I'm the blackest villain of all time.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Time
  • Villain
  • Blackest

• I'd sing all day, every day, all the time if I thought it didn't sound like dying cats.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Time
  • Day
  • Dying

• Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • Death
  • Christian

• I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Know
  • Play
  • Strange

• Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Personal
  • Big
  • Seriously

• I always say spend more on classics, like a good pair of leather trousers, an amazing tailored jacket, or a classic handbag. Then you can just mix your everyday tops from the high street.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Good
  • High
  • Amazing

• In general, I'm rubbish in heels. I love them, and I own a lot because it's like being in a sweet shop: they're pretty. But I'm not good in them. I don't walk nicely in heels.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Like

• At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • School
  • Myself

• Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Never
  • Theory
  • Communist

• We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • People
  • Voice
  • Africa

• I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Movie
  • Read
  • Maybe

• It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.

  

  Edmund White
  • Real
  • Better
  • Successful

• Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Violence
  • Practice

• At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Experience
  • Reality
  • Action

• When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Rock
  • Sex
  • Politics

• I think when a man first discovers that two and two is four, there is 'beauty' in that; and we can see why. But if people stand and look at the moon and one says 'I think it's just beautiful tonight' and the other says 'The moon makes me feel awful' we are both 'clear'. A geometric shape - we know why we like it; and an unreasonable shape; it has a certain mystery that we recognize as real; but it is difficult to put these things in an objective way.

  

  William Baziotes
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Beautiful

• I probably write 10 things to every one that I want to use. It's easy for me to write something that's so poppy that it's wrong for me. If I was 22 years old... it's easy for me to write something that's less mature than I am or ought to be. I'm looking for something that acts my age.

  

  Alex Chilton Big Star
  • Age
  • Write
  • Use

• Take some wood and canvas and nails and things. Build yourself a theater, a stage, light it, learn about it. When you've done that you will probably know how to write a play.

  

  Eugene O'Neill
  • Learn
  • Write
  • Theater

• I have a necklace with a golden key, given to me by my sisters, which I always wear.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Given
  • Key
  • Golden

• I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Inspiration
  • Write