Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“It was as if the boy had already divined what his senses and intellect had not encompassed yet: that doomed wilderness whose… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Most of life is just a preparation for getting ready to be dead for a very long period of time.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“...the very old men [...] believing that they had danced with her and courted her perhaps, confusing time with its mathematical progression,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“And that wasn't the first time it ever occurred to me that this world ain't run like it ought to be run… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“All the past is not a diminishing road but, instead, a huge meadow which no winter ever quite touches, divided from them… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“In my time I have seen truth that was anything under the sun but just, and I have seen justice using tools… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“it was as if he had swung outward at the end of a grape vine, over a ravine, and at the top… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the young… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“And that was the first time Byron remembered that he had ever thought how a man’s name, which is supposed to be… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“and the very old men--some in their brushed Confederate uniforms--on the porch and the lawn, talking of Miss Emily as if she… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“...probably by that time he had learned that there were three things and no more: breathing, pleasure, darkness; and without money there… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write. — 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
