An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.
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.
WILLIAM FAULKNERBe scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
WILLIAM FAULKNERRead, read read. Read everything.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe 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 FAULKNERThe aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf a story is in you, it has to come out.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAlways dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
WILLIAM FAULKNERRead, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERMemory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA man is the sum of his misfortunes.
WILLIAM FAULKNERPeople to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
WILLIAM FAULKNERLife is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
WILLIAM FAULKNER