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
men giving littles
Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.
writing long littles
I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.
regret father littles
It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.
littles might sides
We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put the novel off.
fall littles sound
...only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while...
littles dear-god dear
Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.
love desire littles
Love in the young requires as little of hope as of desire to feed upon.
artist fabric littles
The artist is still a little like the old court jester. He's supposed to speak his vicious paradoxes with some sense in them, but he isn't part of whatever the fabric is that makes a nation.
littles time-left snob
I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
evil littles done
We must just stay awake and see evil done for a little while it's not always.
artist endure hearts help lift work
The work of the artist is to lift up peoples hearts and help them endure
further harder longer point reached risk seem
Even at sixty-two, I can still go harder and further and longer than some of the others. That is, I seem to have reached the point where all I have to risk is just my bones.
absorb apprentice carpenter good studies throw works
Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.
help
Well, it's like this. I ain't got to but I can't help it.