I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERGiven the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou 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 FAULKNERWonder. Go on and wonder.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAt one time I thought the most important thing was talent.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNow she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNo battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWriting a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
WILLIAM FAULKNERLife is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTalk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWar and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
WILLIAM FAULKNERHistory is not was, it is.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
WILLIAM FAULKNER