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
heart writing conflict
The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
two trying earth
The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
two people world
It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.
country letters folks
This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.
book
Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
patience years mules
A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
children blue color
If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green. If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don't deserve to survive, and probably won t.
mother art responsibility
The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.
grief men causes
...no man can cause more grief than the one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancesters.
funny war men
War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
stupid silence stupidity
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
teaching writing love-and-honor
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
writing two imagination
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
life wall moving
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, It moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immotality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artists way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.