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
matter doe depends
This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward.
pride religion needs
It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.
giving-up men should-have
Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
inspirational dream enough
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
horse jumping feel-good
There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.
drinking scotch-whisky whiskey
There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others.
writing fiction telling-the-truth
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
thank-you thanksgiving gratitude
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
drinking scotch-whisky alcohol
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
gentleman
A gentleman can live through anything.
reason i-can knows
She wouldn't say what we both knew. 'The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true: is that it? But you know it is true now. I can almost tell you the day when you knew it is true. Why won't you say it, even to yourself?' She will not say it.
time people individual
Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.
time long mind
I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear.
strength mean frustration
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.