William Faulkner Quotes

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...

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

I am older at twenty than a lot of people who have died.

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

The American really loves nothing but his automobile: not his wife his child nor his country nor even his bank-account first (in fact he doesn't really love that bank-account nearly as much as foreign...

Tell um de good Lawd dont keer whether he bright er not. Dont nobody but white trash keer dat.

Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.

I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.

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...

And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.

Memory believes before knowing remembers.[Light in August]

Don't be 'a writer.' Be writing.

I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.

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.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

Most of life is just a preparation for getting ready to be dead for a very long period of time.

Ninety-nine percent talent…ninety-nine percent discipline…ninety-nine percent work. He must never be satisfied with what he does. It is never as good as it can be done. Always dream and shoot higher t...

Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.