William Faulkner
William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulknerwas an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays, and screenplays. He is primarily known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 September 1897
CityNew Albany, MS
inspiration writing clock
I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.
art responsibility
The writer's only responsibility is to his art.
children fun people
Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.
dream men imagination
So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream.
technique bricklaying surgery
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique.
honesty kids artist
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
wall powerful past
We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being slaves and being free. And we will have to choose completely and for good; the time is already past now when we can choose a little of each, a little of both. We can choose a state of slavedom, and if we are powerful enough to be among the top two or three or ten, we can have a certain amount of license - until someone more powerful rises and has us machine-gunned against a cellar wall.
art philosophy mean
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.
men lust crass
It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself and his fellows his own crass lust and folly.
men long childhood
To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone.
death men thinking
It used to be I thought of death as a man something like Grandfather a friend of his a kind of private and particular friend like we used to think of Grandfather's desk not to touch it not even to talk loud in the room where it was.
people devil glands
People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.
couple divorce men
Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.
men squares facts
A man never gets anywhere if facts and his ledgers don't square.