A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences. William Faulkner More Quotes by William Faulkner More Quotes From William Faulkner It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid. William Faulkner pride needs religion Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he must pass through the wall of oblivion, and he wants to leave a scratch on that wall - Kilroy was here - that somebody a hundred, or a thousand years later will see. William Faulkner wall success life The best fiction is far more true than any journalism. William Faulkner journalism newspapers fiction Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting. William Faulkner fighting sun men I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you. William Faulkner snob time-left littles People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy. William Faulkner strength artist mean Civilization begins with distillation William Faulkner hipster alcohol civilization Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. William Faulkner positive-thinking excellence dream It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow. William Faulkner tomorrow yesterday A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune William Faulkner tired men thinking For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863... William Faulkner july boys years Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view. William Faulkner honesty simple truth If a story is in you, it has to come out. William Faulkner ifs stories 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 imagination writing two You get born and you try this and you don't know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people, all mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don't know why either except that the strings are all in one another's way. William Faulkner atheism people moving The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends. William Faulkner old-friends men book An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. William Faulkner wonder inspiring art Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich. William Faulkner get-rich rich bother He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary. William Faulkner sarcasm music sarcastic Who gathers the withered rose? William Faulkner withered rose
