I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. — 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
“[T]he young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
'I never feel the need to discuss my work with anyone. No, I am too busy writing it. It has got to… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
A hack writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire'… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I only write when I am inspired. Fortunately I am inspired at 9 o'clock every morning.” — 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
“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
He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency . . . to get the book written. If a writer has to rob… — 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
“If you write something that you love beyond all reason, it is wrong and you should strike it out.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had time yet.… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The only rule I have is to quit while it’s still hot. Never write yourself out. Always quit when it’s going good.… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I think that-that anyone, the painter, the musician, the writer works in a-a kind of an-an insane fury. He's demon-driven. He can… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“[A writer] must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I… — 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
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