“I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels;… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“She has no mother because fatherblood hates with love and pride, but motherblood with hate loves and cohabits.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“If we could have just done something so dreadful and Father said That's sad too people cannot do anything that dreadful they… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one... If a writer… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“And so I told myself to take that one. Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Father was teaching us that all men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency . . . to get the book written. If a writer has to rob… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“What is it? something you live and breathe in like air? a kind of vacuum filled with wraithlike and indomitable anger and… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“They held the funeral on the second day, with the town coming to look at Miss Emily beneath a mass of bought… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“But my mother is a fish. Vernon seen it. He was there. "Jewel's mother is a horse," Darl said. "Then mine can… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight o' clock and then I was… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
In the South you are ashamed of being a virgin. Boys. Men. They lie about it. Because it means less to women,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Jason Lycurgus. Who, driven perhaps by the compulsion of the flamboyant name given him by the sardonic embittered woodenlegged indomitable father who… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“The river itself is not a hundred yards across, and pa and Vernon and Vardaman and Dewey Dell are the only things in sight… — William Faulkner Copy Share
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it. — William Faulkner Copy Share
“Luster returned, wearing a stiff new straw hat with a colored band and carrying a cloth cap. The hat seemed to isolate Luster's skull,… — William Faulkner Copy Share
It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged… — William Faulkner Copy Share
“What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on… — William Faulkner Copy Share
I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil, — William Faulkner Copy Share
And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough. — William Faulkner Copy Share
“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice,… — William Faulkner Copy Share
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the… — William Faulkner Copy Share
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi. — William Faulkner Copy Share
“What modren ideas?” pap said. “I didn’t know there was but one idea about work—until it is done, it ain’t done, and when it… — William Faulkner Copy Share
“It was only as he put his hand on the door that he became aware of complete silence beyond it, a silence which he… — William Faulkner Copy Share
“She has no mother because fatherblood hates with love and pride, but motherblood with hate loves and cohabits.” — William Faulkner Copy Share
“Byron listened quietly, thinking to himself how people everywhere are about the same, but that it did seem that in a small town, where… — William Faulkner Copy Share
“It was too late. Maybe yesterday, while I was still a child, but not now. I knew too much, had seen too much, I… — William Faulkner Copy Share
