Only when the clock stops does time come to life
WILLIAM FAULKNEROnly when the clock stops does time come to life
WILLIAM FAULKNERDon’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf a story is in you, it has to come out.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
WILLIAM FAULKNERFacts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
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. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
WILLIAM FAULKNERPeople need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERTruth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
WILLIAM FAULKNERIf people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.
WILLIAM FAULKNERWe must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
WILLIAM FAULKNERJust like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
WILLIAM FAULKNERThe young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.
WILLIAM FAULKNERYou don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
WILLIAM FAULKNER