Top Faulkner Quotes

Do you read them? Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald?Only if I have to. I try to avoid old dead white men.

Amid the pointing and the horror the clean flame.

Pleasure, ecstasy, they cannot seem to bear: their escape from it is in violence, in drinking and fighting and apparently inescapable----And so why should not their religion drive them to crucifixion...

Civilization begins with distillation

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.

If you're going to be a narcissistic schmuck, kid, don't bother studying Faulkner. Go straight to Brett Easton Ellis. He's the role model you need.