William Faulkner Quotes

The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written.

William Faulkner

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• We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Understand
  • Slaves
  • Whatever

• The world is too violent right now.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • World
  • Right
  • Now

• All religions have been made by men.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men
  • Made
  • Religions

• In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

  

  Edmund White
  • Book
  • Experience
  • Man

• The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.

  

  Sachin Bansal
  • People
  • Small
  • Wonder

• I came up with a story and I wrote it.

  

  E. L. James
  • Up
  • Story
  • Wrote

• It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Simple
  • Always
  • Matter

• I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Experience
  • Food
  • Lost

• Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Religious
  • Nothing

• By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Control
  • Now
  • Soviet

• We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Support
  • Human
  • Human Rights

• The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Time
  • Day
  • Only

• You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a game where almost every shot is either an outside shot - a three-point shot - or a dunk.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Different
  • Today
  • Game

• Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing 'Annie Get Your Gun.'

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Singing

• Any negotiated, peaceful solution to the problems between the United States and peoples, or any people of Latin America, which does not imply force or the use of force, must be addressed in accordance with international principles and norms.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • America
  • Latin

• I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Leader
  • Prophet
  • Operate

• Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.

  

  Zendaya
  • Important
  • You
  • Just

• We as a nation have no choice but to conserve fuel to the best of our abilities or be prepared for harsh measures like steep price increase, if the need so arises.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Best
  • Choice
  • Be Prepared

• Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Long
  • Crafts
  • Typewriters

• My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love. I am going to see if I cannot make the bitter warders sweet by the intensity of the love I bear you. I have had moments when I thought it would be wise to separate. Ah! Moments of weakness and madness! Now I see that would have mutilated my life, ruined my art, broken the musical chords which make a perfect soul. Even covered with mud I shall praise you, from the deepest abysses I shall cry to you. In my solitude you will be with me.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Perfect

• A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Strong
  • Intuition
  • Instinct

• Hablo pensando que no debiera hablar: así hablo.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.

  

  Sting The Police
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Style

• The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Style
  • Creates
  • Dictates