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
book should died
What a writer's obituary should read - he wrote the books, then he died.
voice
I listen to the voices.
artist europe america
In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.
time doe clock
Only when the clock stops does time come to life
long life-is process
Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
men waste firsts
It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.
world opinion shame
In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world.
elephants giving caviar
Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.
two vagabonds months
There were many things I could do for two or three days and earn enough money to live on for the rest of the month. By temperament I'm a vagabond and a tramp.
art men hollywood
To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational.
boys july years
For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863.
strong writing wind
Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
men needs hard
...It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
skeletons color europe
A hack writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire' literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.