Trying Quotes by William Faulkner

I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.

— William Faulkner

Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.

— William Faulkner

Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.

— William Faulkner

Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.

— William Faulkner

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

A writer is trying to create believable people in credible moving situations in the most moving way he can.

— William Faulkner

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

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try…

— William Faulkner

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

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

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

All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to…

— William Faulkner

...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

It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do…

— William Faulkner

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

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

He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself. But the street ran on: catlike, one…

— William Faulkner

That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say…

— William Faulkner

At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach…

— William Faulkner