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I learned little save that mo...

I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man's abilities, had already been performed and were to be learned about only from books.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

Pointless. . . . Like giving ...

Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

It begins with a character, u...

It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

Menfolks listens to somebody ...

Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

What's wrong with this world ...

What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not completed to that point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, "It is finished. We made it, and it works.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

Get it down. Take chances. It...

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

Everyone in the South has no ...

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

William Faulkner 414 quotes

That which is destroying the ...

That which is destroying the Church is not the outward groping of those within it nor the inward groping of those without, but the professionals who control it and who have removed the bells from its steeples.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

I would say that music is the...

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

We cannot choose freedom esta...

We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

The whiskey died away in time...

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.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

Maybe the only thing worse th...

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantlyall the time, is having to accept it.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

I feel like a wet seed wild i...

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

William Faulkner 414 quotes

A writer must teach himself t...

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

It is the writer's privilege ...

It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

The necessity of the idea cre...

The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

This is a free country. Folks...

This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

Between grief and nothing, I ...

Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

A writer strives to express a...

A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

With me, a story usually begi...

With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working up to that moment, to explain why it happened or what caused it to follow.

William Faulkner 414 quotes

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