If a story is in you, it has to come out. William Faulkner More Quotes by William Faulkner More Quotes From William Faulkner Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. William Faulkner scaredhelping 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 prideneedsreligion 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 wallsuccesslife The best fiction is far more true than any journalism. William Faulkner journalismnewspapersfiction Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting. William Faulkner fightingsunmen 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 snobtime-leftlittles 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 strengthartistmean Civilization begins with distillation William Faulkner hipsteralcoholcivilization Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. William Faulkner positive-thinkingexcellencedream It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow. William Faulkner tomorrowyesterday 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 tiredmenthinking 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 julyboysyears 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 honestysimpletruth 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 imaginationwritingtwo 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 atheismpeoplemoving 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-friendsmenbook 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 wonderinspiringart 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-richrichbother He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary. William Faulkner sarcasmmusicsarcastic Who gathers the withered rose? William Faulkner witheredrose
