Quotes William Faulkner

A gentleman can live through anything....

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from ...

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you,...

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is...

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rat...

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don'...

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know wh...

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clic...

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or p...

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get t...

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other...

Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief....

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing,...

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back...

I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. ...

I decline to accept the end of man....

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth....

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem i...

I never know what I think about something until I read what ...

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to expr...

I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather ...

I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hu...

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The...

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, He...

If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Not...