Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do… — 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
All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The reason I don't like interviews is that I seem to react violently to personal questions. If the questions are about the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to. — 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
You get born and you try this and you don't know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
A writer is trying to create believable people in credible moving situations in the most moving way he can. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself. But the street ran on: catlike, one… — 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
