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 FAULKNERI think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERRead, read read. Read everything.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe past is never dead, it is not even past.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWe must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERI give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…
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 FAULKNERDon’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe writer’s only responsibility is to his art.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNo one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf a story is in you, it has to come out.
WILLIAM FAULKNERNo battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
WILLIAM FAULKNERAnd even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTo live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
WILLIAM FAULKNER