QUOTES by William Faulkner
Find most favourite and famour Authors from A.A Milne to Zoe Kravitz.
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
Quote by -William Faulkner
I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie
Quote by -William Faulkner
When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.
Quote by -William Faulkner
Any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man
Quote by -William Faulkner
If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time
Quote by -William Faulkner
She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be in words.
Quote by -William Faulkner
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
Quote by -William Faulkner
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
Quote by -William Faulkner
Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
Quote by -William Faulkner
I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue...
Quote by -William Faulkner
It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.
Quote by -William Faulkner
I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.
Quote by -William Faulkner
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
Quote by -William Faulkner
I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
Quote by -William Faulkner
War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.
Quote by -William Faulkner
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
Quote by -William Faulkner
This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward.
Quote by -William Faulkner
A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
Quote by -William Faulkner
He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.
Quote by -William Faulkner
The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.
Quote by -William Faulkner
I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
Quote by -William Faulkner
And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.
Quote by -William Faulkner
You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
Quote by -William Faulkner
It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.
Quote by -William Faulkner
Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world.
Quote by -William Faulkner
And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.
Quote by -William Faulkner
You intend to kiss me and yet you are going to all this damn trouble about it.
Quote by -William Faulkner
I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
Quote by -William Faulkner
I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.
Quote by -William Faulkner
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
Quote by -William Faulkner
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
Quote by -William Faulkner