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
drink eat eight everybody himself hours love man miserable nor reason saddest
One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.
believe man merely optimism
I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
men white-man justice
They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.
men poor mankind
Poor man. Poor mankind.
men dead-man
any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man
past
The past is never forgotten; it's never even past
There is no such thing as was -- only is.
acting believe courage decency found greatest help meeting problem self-esteem whatever words
I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and selfrespect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
common nicknames people
Nicknames are vulgar. Only common people use them.
best good landlord mornings time
Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.
agony award create exist glory human materials mine spirit sweat work
I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work -- a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. So this award is only mine in trust.
easiest express means music pure since words
I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express . . . but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure must would have done better.
thank-you thanksgiving gratitude
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
men voice needs
The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.