Best William Faulkner Sayings
- Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be… Always Dream
- The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man… Curious
- I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. Believe
- This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them. Country
- It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000. Book
- The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all… All
- The air brightened, the running shadow patches were now the obverse, and it seemed to him that the fact that the day was clearing was… Air
- We must just stay awake and see evil done for a little while it's not always. Awake
- The only rule I have is to quit while it’s still hot. Never write yourself out. Always quit when it’s going good. Then it’s easier… Always Quit
- The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and… Endure
- Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you Cringe
- I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most… Demanding
- Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with… Alter
- Try to be better than yourself. Better
- The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience Experience
- Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Afraid
- Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself. Better
- That which is destroying the Church is not the outward groping of those within it nor the inward groping of those without, but the professionals… Bells
- The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do… Book
- I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it. Absolutely
- The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'… Any
- It feels almost soft, like something to be caressed. Only gold feels that way. Caressed
- Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind… Beautiful
- Listen to the voices. Inspiration
- The poets are almost always wrong about the facts. That's because they're not interested in the facts, only the truth. Almost Always
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