William Faulkner Quotes - Page 3

American writer and Nobel Prize laureate

In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
– William Faulkner

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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
– William Faulkner

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No one individual can tell the truth.
– William Faulkner

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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
– William Faulkner

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Poets are almost always wrong about facts. That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth.
– William Faulkner

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We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!
– William Faulkner

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Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
– William Faulkner

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The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
-William Faulkner

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Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
– William Faulkner

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Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
– William Faulkner

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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
– William Faulkner

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And he was not old enough to talk and say nothing at the same time.
– William Faulkner

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I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.
– William Faulkner

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Love in the young requires as little of hope as of desire to feed upon.
– William Faulkner

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A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
– William Faulkner

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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
– William Faulkner

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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
– William Faulkner

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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
– William Faulkner

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