When ideas come I write them when they don't come I don't.
The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat clean quite solvent business.
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...
It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment.
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...
In the South you are ashamed of being a virgin. Boys. Men. They lie about it. Because it means less to women, Father said. He said it was men invented virginity not women. Father said it's like death:...
I am the chosen of the Lord, for who He loveth, so doeth He chastiseth. But I be durn if He dont take some curious ways to show it, seems like.
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...
Fear is the most damnable damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.
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.
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 ...
Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.
Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.
It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.
I am not one of those women who can stand things.
He just thought quietly, 'So this is love. I see, I was wrong about it too', thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound boo...
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...
Don't be 'a writer.' Be writing.
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...