A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….
WILLIAM FAULKNERArtists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
More William Faulkner Quotes
-
-
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Wonder. Go on and wonder.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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 -
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Civilization begins with distillation
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 -
The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
Only when the clock stops does time come to life
WILLIAM FAULKNER -
The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
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 -
Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. 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.
WILLIAM FAULKNER






