Way Quotes by William Faulkner

I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.

— William Faulkner

Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.

— William Faulkner

Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.

— William Faulkner

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.

— William Faulkner

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

— William Faulkner

It feels almost soft, like something to be caressed. Only gold feels that way.

— William Faulkner

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

— William Faulkner

That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.

— William Faulkner

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

A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.

— William Faulkner

I never promise a woman anything nor let her know what I'm going to give her. That's the only way to manage…

— William Faulkner

Where the shadow of the bridge fell I could see down for a long way, but not as far as the bottom.…

— 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

Sometimes I aint so sho who's got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint. Sometimes…

— William Faulkner

I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of…

— William Faulkner

Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the…

— William Faulkner

I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats…

— William Faulkner

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a…

— William Faulkner

Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship…

— William Faulkner