William Faulkner Quotes
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Love doesn't die; the men and women do.
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You can't. You just have to.
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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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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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If there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above all others to offer immortality, THOU SHALT NOT KILL must be it.
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...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.
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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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If a story is in you, it has to come out.
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Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.
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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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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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He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.
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Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.
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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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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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A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world; how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning.
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I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue.
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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
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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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I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil.