William Faulkner Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by William Faulkner
William Faulkner Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from William Faulkner on Wise Famous Quotes.
The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.
The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use.
There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
Any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man
Government was founded on the working premiss of being primarily an asylum for ineptitude and indigence.
And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless.
I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.
Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a saint.
It is the man who all his life has been self-convicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.
Then the town was sorry with being glad, as people sometimes are sorry for those whom they have at last forced to do as they wanted them to.
I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.
Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
What modren ideas?" pap said. "I didn't know there was but one idea about work - until it is done, it ain't done, and when it is done, it is.
I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!
You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.
And Judith, the young girl dreaming, not living, in her complete detachment and imperviousness to actuality almost like physical deafness.
If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time
He lived out there, eight miles from any neighbor, in a masculine solitude in what might be called the half-acre gunroom of a baronial splendor.
[The] Christ story is one of the best stories that man has invented ...
Faulkner in the University, 117
Faulkner in the University, 117
I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time. And
Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
A man aint so different from a horse or a mule, come long come short, except a mule or a horse has got a little more sense.
I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.
God is foolish at times, but at least He's a gentleman. Dont you know that?" "I always thought of Him as a man," the woman said.
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.
Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own.
A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.
Who owned no property and never desired to since the earth was no man's but all men's, as light and air and weather were.
It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.
Folks are funny. They can't stick to one way of thinking or doing anything unless they get a new reason for doing it ever so often.
She looked at me then everything emptied out of her eyes and they looked like the eyes in statues blank and unseeing and serene put
Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity..
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.