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
opportunity names ideas
People everywhere are about the same, but ... it did seem that in a small town, where evil is harder to accomplish, where opportunities for privacy are scarcer, that people can invent more of it in other people's names. Because that was all it required: that idea, that single idle word blown from mind to mind.
memories flesh bones
Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
prayer thinking habit
He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.
life thinking people
I think the serious things really are the things that make for happiness--people and things that are compatible, love.... So many people are content just to sit around and talk about them instead of getting out and attaining them. As if life were a joke of some kind.
love desire littles
Love in the young requires as little of hope as of desire to feed upon.
lust despair valleys
Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down.
sleep names legs
You're looking, sir, at a very dull survivor of a very gaudy life. Crippled, paralyzed in both legs. Very little I can eat, and my sleep is so near waking that it's hardly worth the name. I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider.
ambition leaving individual
It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.
regret habit idle
It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.
writing swimming men
Nothing can injure a man's writing if he's a first-rate writer. If a man is not a first-rate writer, there's not anything can help it much. The problem does not apply if he is not first rate because he has already sold his soul for a swimming pool.
artist fabric littles
The artist is still a little like the old court jester. He's supposed to speak his vicious paradoxes with some sense in them, but he isn't part of whatever the fabric is that makes a nation.
paper needs economic
The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.
sacrifice curiosity mistress
Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.
reading writing crafts
That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.