William Faulkner Quotes - Page 3

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• 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 success or getting rich.

  William Faulkner

  Rich, Get Rich, Bother

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• Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.

  William Faulkner

  Writing

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• The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

  William Faulkner

  Men, World Suffering, Salvation

  William Faulkner (1994). “Novels 1942-1954”

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• Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.

  William Faulkner

  Mistake, Believe, Writing

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

  William Faulkner

  Funny, War, Men

  William Faulkner (2011). “A Fable”, p.26, Vintage

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• 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 to old friends.

  William Faulkner

  Book, Men, Old Friends

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• Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.

  William Faulkner

  Strong, Writing, Wind

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• Love doesn't die; the men and women do.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Men And Women, Dies

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• Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.

  William Faulkner

  Fear, Personality, World

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• If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

  William Faulkner

  Determination, Optimistic, Suffering

  William Faulkner, Noel Polk (1987). “Absalom, Absalom!, typescript setting copy and miscellaneous material”, Facsimiles-Garl

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• The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

  William Faulkner

  Love, Inspirational, Wisdom

  William Faulkner (2011). “Flags in the Dust: The complete text of Faulkner's third novel, which appeared in a cut version as Sartoris”, p.68, Vintage

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• I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.

  William Faulkner

  Littles, Time Left, Snob

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• The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.

  William Faulkner

  Science, Technology, Men

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• a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble he's used to before he'll risk a change. Yes. A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. But it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Risk, Trying

  William Faulkner (1985). “Light in August”, Vintage

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• He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

  William Faulkner

  Music, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat...nor make love for eight hours...

  William Faulkner

  Work, Men, Eight

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.

  William Faulkner

  Three, Thousand, Three Words

  William Faulkner (1951). “Absalom, Absalom!”

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• Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

  William Faulkner

  Inspiring, Writing, May

  "A Faulkner perspective: a companion-guide to the limited first edition of the Selected letters of William Faulkner".

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• Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.

  William Faulkner

  Memories, Flesh, Bones

  William Faulkner (1951). “Absalom, Absalom!”

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• A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

  William Faulkner

  Tired, Men, Thinking

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.104, Modern Library

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• Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.

  William Faulkner

  Time, People, Individual

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

  William Faulkner

  Inspiring, Art, Wonder

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.

  William Faulkner

  Peace, Paper, Cash

  William Faulkner (1994). “Novels 1942-1954”

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• My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

  William Faulkner

  Drinking, Writing, Scotch Whisky

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

  William Faulkner

  Advice, Inability, Fool

  William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America

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