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 More Quotes by William Faulkner More Quotes From William Faulkner Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity. William Faulkner aghast madness looks Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world. William Faulkner personality fear world We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears! William Faulkner heard ears sound Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's next to the poem, almost every word has got to be almost exactly right. In the novel you can be careless but in the short story you can't. I mean by that the good short stories like Chekhov wrote. That's why I rate that second - it's because it demands a nearer absolute exactitude. You have less room to be slovenly and careless. There's less room in it for trash. William Faulkner crafts stories mean Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantlyall the time, is having to accept it. William Faulkner gratitude time giving We must just stay awake and see evil done for a little while it's not always. William Faulkner done evil littles The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience William Faulkner source three imagination Try to be better than yourself. William Faulkner trying When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came slanting upon two faces lifted out of the shadow. William Faulkner light dark book The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him. William Faulkner vanity artist believe You men,' she says. 'You durn men. William Faulkner men The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means. William Faulkner philosophy mean art The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper. William Faulkner economic paper needs He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond. William Faulkner behinds If there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above all others to offer immortality, THOU SHALT NOT KILL must be it. William Faulkner immortality blind book So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice. William Faulkner war peace long People everywhere are about the same, but ... it did seem that in a small town, where evil is harder to accomplish, where opportunities for privacy are scarcer, that people can invent more of it in other people's names. Because that was all it required: that idea, that single idle word blown from mind to mind. William Faulkner names opportunity ideas It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it. William Faulkner waste men firsts A man never gets anywhere if facts and his ledgers don't square. William Faulkner squares men facts How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-string: in sunset we fall into furious attitudes, dead gestures of dolls. William Faulkner sunset attitude fall
