Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
More William Faulkner Quotes
-
-
The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Who gathers the withered rose?
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
The past is never dead, it is not even past.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain’t got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
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 back either. Just refuse to bear them.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
WILLIAM FAULKNER