I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone. William Faulkner American Novelist More William Faulkner Quotes 3
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. William Faulkner American Novelist More William Faulkner Quotes 3
The past is never dead. It's not even past. William Faulkner American Novelist More William Faulkner Quotes 3
The salvation of the world is in man's suffering. William Faulkner American Novelist More William Faulkner Quotes 3
The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey. William Faulkner American Novelist More William Faulkner Quotes 3
Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest. William Faulkner American Novelist More William Faulkner Quotes 2
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 is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window. William Faulkner American Writer More William Faulkner Quotes 1
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. William Faulkner American Novelist More William Faulkner Quotes 1
Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash. Your picture in the paper nor money in the bank, neither. Just refuse to bear them. William Faulkner American Writer More William Faulkner Quotes 1
I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them; you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and when you move to one side a little and look at it from that angle, it's not thick enough to cast a shadow in that direction. William Faulkner American Writer More William Faulkner Quotes 0
Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what that other man or woman is doing. William Faulkner American Writer More William Faulkner Quotes 0
Home again, his native land; he was born of it and his bones will sleep in it . . . William Faulkner American Writer More William Faulkner Quotes 0
He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear. William Faulkner American Writer More William Faulkner Quotes 0
This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them. William Faulkner American Novelist More William Faulkner Quotes 0
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow. William Faulkner American Novelist More William Faulkner Quotes 0
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi. William Faulkner American Novelist More William Faulkner Quotes 0
Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets. William Faulkner American Novelist More William Faulkner Quotes 0
The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies. William Faulkner American Novelist More William Faulkner Quotes 0
I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express . . . but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure must would have done better. William Faulkner American Writer More William Faulkner Quotes 0
Perhaps they were right in putting love into books, . . . Perhaps it could not live anywhere else. William Faulkner American Writer More William Faulkner Quotes 0
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. William Faulkner American Writer More William Faulkner Quotes 0
Loving all of it even while he had to hate some of it because he knows now that you don't love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults. William Faulkner American Writer More William Faulkner Quotes 0
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. William Faulkner American Writer More William Faulkner Quotes 0
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid. William Faulkner American Novelist More William Faulkner Quotes 0
Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find. William Faulkner American Novelist More William Faulkner Quotes 0