William Faulkner Quotes
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Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.
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It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.
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Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.
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It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.
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The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.
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We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!
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In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.
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A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
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Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantlyall the time, is having to accept it.
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A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
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My, my. A body does get around.
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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.
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I am not one of those women who can stand things.
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The past is never dead. It's not even past.
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.
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Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.
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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
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You get born and you try this and you don't know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people, all mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don't know why either except that the strings are all in one another's way.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say, Well, ignorance then. The child is neither. There is no crime which a boy of eleven had not envisaged long ago. His only innocence is, he may not be old enough to desire the fruits of it...his ignorance is, he does not know how to commit it...
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I never promise a woman anything nor let her know what I'm going to give her. That's the only way to manage them. Always keep them guessing. If you cant think of any other way to surprise them, give them a bust in the jaw.