And he was not old enough to talk and say nothing at the same time.
- William Faulkner
The past is not dead. In fact, it’s not even past.
- William Faulkner
Perhaps love cannot live anywhere but books.
- William Faulkner
Writing is one-third imagination, one-third experience, and one third observation.
- William Faulkner
The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
-William Faulkner
The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
-William Faulkner
We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!
- William Faulkner
Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.
- William Faulkner
I am not one of those women who can stand things.
- William Faulkner
Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.
- William Faulkner
I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
- William Faulkner
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
- William Faulkner
The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.
- William Faulkner
She was the captain of her soul.
- William Faulkner
Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.
- William Faulkner
Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
- William Faulkner
Love in the young requires as little of hope as of desire to feed upon.
- William Faulkner
Poets are almost always wrong about facts. That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth.
- William Faulkner
Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.
- William Faulkner
She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.
- William Faulkner