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
life believe sacrifice
I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
littles time-left snob
I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
book literature nobel
It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.
understanding gettysburg born
Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there.
men doctors cyclones
I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.
trying answers may
The reason I don't like interviews is that I seem to react violently to personal questions. If the questions are about the work, I try to answer them. When they are about me, I may answer or I may not, but even if I do, if the same question is asked tomorrow, the answer may be different.
men rocks talking
It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking.
book reading men
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.
pain hangover thinking
I think that-that anyone, the painter, the musician, the writer works in a-a kind of an-an insane fury. He's demon-driven. He can get up feeling rotten, with a hangover, or with-with actual pain, and-and if he gets to work, the first thing he knows, he don't remember that pain, that hangover-he's too busy.
book pride honor
Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.
fear personality world
Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
unique gadgets useless
It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget.
reality rocks maelstrom
There is that might-have-been which is the single rock we cling to above the maelstrom of unbearable reality.
if-there-is-a-god hell ifs
If there is a God what the hell is He for?