William Faulkner Quotes

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. An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done. The writer's only responsibility is to his art.

William Faulkner

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• The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Confidence
  • Child
  • Greatest

• Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Kind

• Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Great
  • Judge
  • Circumstances

• Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Flying
  • Calm
  • Rattle

• You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • You
  • Living
  • Playwright

• When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Best

• I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Hand
  • Hands
  • Said

• One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Books
  • Morality
  • Reasons

• We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Live
  • Age
  • Knowledge

• I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Run
  • Going
  • Away

• Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.

  

  J. B. Morton
  • Done
  • Justice
  • Seen

• I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Different
  • Paint

• I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Wife

• You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • May
  • You
  • Rich

• If the part isn't always there on the page, I've had good relationships with writers where there's an openness to bring more to the role.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Good
  • Relationships
  • Page

• If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.

  

  J. M. W. Turner
  • Black
  • Find
  • Anything

• Chiranjeevi sir is extremely humble and gracious. He is a superstar, but he is one of the nicest, sweetest, most grounded individuals.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Humble
  • Grounded
  • Gracious

• My work is not my life. I started writing quite late, I didn't have that 'writing is everything, my art is all.' You have to be able to recognise the difference between the two.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Writing

• I claim the right not to incriminate myself.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos

• You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Successful

• Homosexuality is anti-humanity.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Humanity
  • Homosexuality

• Second terms in the White House open the way for second thoughts.

  

  John Lewis Gaddis
  • House
  • Thoughts

• Gloire et louange à toi, Satan, dans les hauteursDu Ciel, où tu régnas, et dans les profondeursde l’Enfer, où, vaincu, tu rêves en silence!Fais que mon âme un jour, sous l’Arbre de Science,Près de toi se repose, à l’heure où sur ton frontComme un Temple nouveau ses rameaux s’épandront!

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Science
  • Silence
  • Satan

• 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. An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done. The writer's only responsibility is to his art.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Art
  • Dream
  • Responsibility