William Faulkner quotes - page 2

. . . and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forgot the words . . . (William Faulkner)
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. View quote
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Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing. View quote
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I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are. View quote
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it. View quote
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Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. View quote
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I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie. View quote
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Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice. View quote
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... so vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream. View quote
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Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.... View quote
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It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work. (William Faulkner)
My mother is a fish. View quote
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Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest. View quote
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary. View quote
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How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home. View quote
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A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. View quote
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too. View quote
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world... would do this, it would change the earth. View quote
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I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth. View quote
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A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid. View quote
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A 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 Faulkner)
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. View quote
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She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love. View quote
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Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed. View quote
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Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least. View quote
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