. . .in August in Mississippi there’s a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly there’s a foretaste… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Then I began to smell it again, like each time he returned, like the day back in the spring when I rode… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Life is not interested in good and evil. Don Quixote was constantly choosing between good and evil, but then he was choosing… — 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
Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better. — 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
“When they get done sending you to Parchman you'll have plenty of time between working cotton and corn you aint going to… — 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
Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past. — 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
“She wasn’t too big, heroic, what they call Junoesque. It was that there was just too much of what she was for… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“And he was not old enough to talk and say nothing at the same time.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
My ideal job? 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 listening part is afraid that there may not be time to say it". Dewey Dell - As I Lay Dying.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a… — 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
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I, the dreamer clinging yet to the dream as the patient clings to the last thin unbearable ecstatic instant of agony in… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina" when asked the three best novels of all time.” — 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
