More Quotes by William Faulkner
Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
