American writer and Nobel Prize laureate
In writing, you must kill all your darlings. – William Faulkner
Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory. – William Faulkner
No one individual can tell the truth. – William Faulkner
Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other. – William Faulkner
Poets are almost always wrong about facts. That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth. – William Faulkner
We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears! – William Faulkner
Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid. – William Faulkner
The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering. -William Faulkner
Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing. – William Faulkner
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. – William Faulkner
And he was not old enough to talk and say nothing at the same time. – William Faulkner
I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day. – William Faulkner
Love in the young requires as little of hope as of desire to feed upon. – William Faulkner
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. – William Faulkner
People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too. – William Faulkner
Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder. – William Faulkner
If there is a God what the hell is He for? – William Faulkner
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