William Faulkner Quotes

The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat clean quite solvent business.

I only write when the spirit moves me ... and the spirit moves me every day. William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi

When ideas come I write them when they don't come I don't.

Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.

You are not thinking of finitude you are contemplating an apotheosis in which a temporary state of mind will become symmetrical above the flesh and aware both of itself and of the flesh it will not qu...

The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everythi...

The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.

It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.

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

It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like these college professors without a whole pair of socks to his name, telling you how to make a...

The sun, an hour above the horizon, is poised like a bloody egg upon a crest of thunderheads; the light has turned copper: in the eye portentous, in the nose sulphurous, smelling of lightning.

The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene ...

It is because so much happens. Too much happens. That's it. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. That's it. That's w...

Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.

Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.

But my mother is a fish. Vernon seen it. He was there.Jewel's mother is a horse, Darl said.Then mine can be a fish, can't it, Darl? I said.Jewel is my brother.Then mine will have to be a horse, too, I...

You intend to kiss me and yet you are going to all this damn trouble about it.

I am not one of those women who can stand things.

I will never lie again.

I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice but because he has a soul a spirit capable of compassion a...