More Quotes by William Faulkner
Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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.
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.
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.
