William Faulkner
William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulknerwas an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays, and screenplays. He is primarily known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 September 1897
CityNew Albany, MS
stars boxes stills
Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed.
writing heart men
Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat. He must learn them again.
artist fabric littles
The artist is still a little like the old court jester. He's supposed to speak his vicious paradoxes with some sense in them, but he isn't part of whatever the fabric is that makes a nation.
nice ravel would-be
If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time
two long people
As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
different would-be feels
It's because I'm alone.. If I could just feel it, it would be different, because I would not be alone. But if I were not alone, everybody would know it. And he could do so much for me, and then I would not be alone. Then I could be all right alone.
sacrifice curiosity mistress
Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.
paper needs economic
The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.
lying knowing not-knowing
I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie
hope writing heart
The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.
fighting men sun
Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
want enough
I don't want money badly enough to work for it.
children adults accepting
Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.
advice fool inability
I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.