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
honesty lying men
So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed. If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.
mistake believe writing
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. 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.
rich get-rich bother
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.
moving people atheism
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.
inspirational motivational history
History is not was, it is.
life honesty now-and-then
Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest
tired men thinking
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
inspirational motivational positive
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
wisdom past heredity-and-environment
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
life equality race
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
men voice needs
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.
helping scared
Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid.
writing artist solitude
The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.
memories believe august
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.