William Faulkner

Quotes

• “Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who wo...”
• “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 drin...”
• “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If peopl...”
• “Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or pred...”
• “The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgot...”
• “Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
• “I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.”
• “Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.”
• “You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.”
• “Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.”
• “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
• “A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.”
• “The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.”
• “In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”
• “If a story is in you, it has to come out.”