Quotes by William Faulkner
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
– William Faulkner
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
– William Faulkner
Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.
– William Faulkner
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
– William Faulkner
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.
– William Faulkner
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
– William Faulkner
Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.
– William Faulkner
I am not one of those women who can stand things.
– William Faulkner
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
– William Faulkner
Making or getting money is a kind of game where there are not any rules at all.
– William Faulkner
I say money has no value; it’s just the way you spend it.
– William Faulkner
She was the captain of her soul.
– William Faulkner
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.
– 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
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
– William Faulkner
Writing is one-third imagination, one-third experience, and one third observation.
– William Faulkner
The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
-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
Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.
– William Faulkner
The past is not dead. In fact, it’s not even past.
– William Faulkner
And he was not old enough to talk and say nothing at the same time.
– William Faulkner
The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
-William Faulkner
We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!
– 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