All William Faulkner Quotes
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.
William Faulkner
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The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkner
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If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.
William Faulkner
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Clocks 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 in
Time
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Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
William Faulkner
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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
William Faulkner
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
William Faulkner
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Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.
William Faulkner
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If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.
William Faulkner
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A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
William Faulkner
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The 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 Faulkner in
Art
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
William Faulkner
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Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
William Faulkner
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
William Faulkner
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