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
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
“If you write something that you love beyond all reason, it is wrong and you should strike it out.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Writing is one-third imagination, one-third experience, and one third observation.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Nothing can injure a man's writing if he's a first-rate writer. If a man is not a first-rate writer, there's not anything… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
...if there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“He is the greatest artist the South has produced.… Indeed, through his many novels and short stories, Faulkner fights out the moral… — 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
![“He is the greatest artist the South has produced.… Indeed, through his many novels and short stories, Faulkner fights out the moral problem which was repressed after the nineteenth century [yet] for all his concern with the South, Faulkner was actually seeking out the nature of man. Thus we must…” quote by William Faulkner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2cf/william-faulkner-306_art_he-is-the-greatest-artist-the-south-has_2640538.jpg)
