Best William Faulkner Words
- The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business. Business
- The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The… All
- I don't know anything about inspiration because I don't know what inspiration is; I've heard about it, but I never saw it. Heard
- You have to write badly in order to write well. Badly
- Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship and poverty they… Afraid
- They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the… All
- I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him. Draw
- All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away. Accumulation
- A man is the sum of his misfortunes. Inspirational
- Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride. Conduct
- True poetry is not of earth, 'T is more of Heaven by its birth. Birth
- Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world. Encountered
- There is that might-have-been which is the single rock we cling to above the maelstrom of unbearable reality. Been
- Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a… Any
- Women are like that they don't acquire knowledge of people we are for that they are just born with a practical fertility of suspicion that… Acquire
- There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less. Inspirational
- If there is a God what the hell is He for? God
- God created man and He created the world for him to live in and I reckon He created the kind of world He would have… Been
- The reason I don't like interviews is that I seem to react violently to personal questions. If the questions are about the work, I try… Answer
- Poor man. Poor mankind. Inspirational
- ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth. Apparently
- It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself… All
- It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart. Endure
- A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station…. Bus
- Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. Believe
More Ways to Read William Faulkner Quotes
- Best William Faulkner Quotes (William Faulkner Quotes)
- Best William Faulkner Sayings (William Faulkner Quotes)
- Best William Faulkner Quotations (William Faulkner Quotes)
- Best William Faulkner Lines (William Faulkner Quotes)
- Best William Faulkner Thoughts (William Faulkner Quotes)
- Best William Faulkner Wisdom (William Faulkner Quotes)
- Best William Faulkner Proverbs (William Faulkner Quotes)