Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“And George Farr had the town, the earth, the world to himself and his sorrow. Music came faint as a troubling rumor… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Writing is one-third imagination, one-third experience, and one third observation.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the young… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by the word. It is every individual's individual code of… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good. — 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
The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a… — 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
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a… — 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
