William Faulkner Quotes
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Did you ever have a sister? did you?
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They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words.
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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do -after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.
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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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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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With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working up to that moment, to explain why it happened or what caused it to follow.
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By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommer-ciable ones of the human spirit.
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This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.
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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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You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.
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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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I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of course the pictorial magazines and comic strips finally atrophy man's capacity to read, and literature really is on its way back to the picture writing in the Neanderthal cave.
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Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.
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If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
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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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When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't.
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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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I am not one of those women who can stand things.
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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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Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.
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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.