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
inspirational life motivational
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
past substitutes something-better
Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.
heart men privilege
It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.
rich get-rich bother
Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich.
love faults virtue
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
men alcohol fifty
There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.
wisdom past heredity-and-environment
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
book burning pouring
Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
strong capacity-to-love giving
She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
reality firsts world
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
mean men race
No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.
running gun worry
Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
facts
Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
dream writing artist
The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.