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
advice fool inability
I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
patience long waiting
And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.
writing men long
I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of course the pictorial magazines and comic strips finally atrophy man's capacity to read, and literature really is on its way back to the picture writing in the Neanderthal cave.
world opinion shame
In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world.
loneliness
I am not one of those women who can stand things.
spite incapable
She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.
church bells inward
That which is destroying the Church is not the outward groping of those within it nor the inward groping of those without, but the professionals who control it and who have removed the bells from its steeples.
women drawing people
Women are like that they don't acquire knowledge of people we are for that they are just born with a practical fertility of suspicion that makes a crop every so often and usually right they have an affinity for evil for supplying whatever the evil lacks in itself for drawing it about them instinctively as you do bed-clothing in slumber fertilizing the mind for it until the evil has served its purpose whether it ever existed or no.
marriage long rooms
Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.
materials i-can ifs
I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.
long life-is process
Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
prayer thinking habit
He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.
inspirational running dream
Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
behinds
He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.