The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a… — 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
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil, — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
![“Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's next to the poem, almost every word has got to be almost exactly right. In the novel you can be careless but in the short story you can't. I mean by that the good short stories…” quote by William Faulkner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ff6/william-faulkner-306_absolutes_yes-sir-you-can-be-more-careless-you-can_1716854.jpg)
