Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
Love doesn't die; the men and women do.
Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
When ideas come I write them when they don't come I don't.
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...
She carried her head high enough - even when we believed that she was fallen. It was as if she demanded more than ever the recognition of her dignity as the last Grierson; as if it had wanted that tou...
My mother is a fish.
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 am older at twenty than a lot of people who have died.
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...
I only write when the spirit moves me ... and the spirit moves me every day. William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi
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.
My, my. A body does get around.
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 say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
No man can cause more grief than the one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancesters.