William Faulkner Quotes
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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
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Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
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Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
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I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man's abilities, had already been performed and were to be learned about only from books.
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The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.
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Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.
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He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.
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...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.
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Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.
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I don't know anything about inspiration because I don't know what inspiration is; I've heard about it, but I never saw it.
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The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
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Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
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She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do.
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There were many things I could do for two or three days and earn enough money to live on for the rest of the month. By temperament I'm a vagabond and a tramp.
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it. Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune.
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The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.
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That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at. When he was born I knew that motherhood was invented by someone who had to have a word for it because the ones that had the children didn't care whether there was a word for it or not. I knew that fear was invented by someone that had never had the fear; pride, who never had the pride.
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I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God.