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 honesty now-and-then
Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest
depression pain numbness
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
mistake believe writing
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.
funny work men
It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
men victory despair
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
honesty lying men
So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed. If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
inspirational motivational positive
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
dream positive-thinking excellence
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
truth honesty lying
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
fear teaching learning
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
freedom 4th-of-july patriotic
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
helping scared
Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid.
helping scared
Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid.
writing thinking written
I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.