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
hurt military thinking
I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.
science technology men
The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
work men eight
One of the saddest things is that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat ... nor make love for eight hours.
strength mean frustration
People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
past over-it
The past isn't over. It isn't even past.
drinking scotch-whisky alcohol
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
sleep rooms strange
In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. I don't know what I am. I don't know if I am or not.
writing dostoyevsky written
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.
people tongue consistent
I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue...
inspiring writing may
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.
beautiful men ideas
Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
writing fiction telling-the-truth
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
hate dark air
I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!
thinking two people
...I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to it, so that after a while the two lines are too far apart for the same person to straddle from one to the other; and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words.