No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNo man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERA 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 FAULKNERThe next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.
WILLIAM FAULKNERRead, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTime is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe 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 FAULKNERThere are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought.
WILLIAM FAULKNERLove doesn’t die; the men and women do.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
WILLIAM FAULKNERGratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIt seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
WILLIAM FAULKNERClocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
WILLIAM FAULKNER