It’s all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAn artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
More William Faulkner Quotes
-
-
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
The past is never dead, it is not even past.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Who gathers the withered rose?
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
All l mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don’t know why either except that the strings are all in one another’s way.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
WILLIAM FAULKNER