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
south
Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.
matter doe depends
This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward.
rain home thinking
How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.
way values
I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.
time people individual
Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.
evil littles done
We must just stay awake and see evil done for a little while it's not always.
men dust desire
Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.
certain amount
In every writer there is a certain amount of the scavenger.
sports gentleman kentuckians
Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.
hate taught hate-me
Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
moving character writing
It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.
writing thinking written
I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
writing heart agony
the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
inspiring art busy
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.