891 Quotes by William Faulkner

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy. His wife and children may be shoeless; someone will always buy him drink or weapons.

I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

If a story is in you, it has to come out.

It does not take long. Soon the fine galloping language, the gutless swooning full of sapless trees and dehydrated lusts begins to swim smooth and swift and peaceful. It is better than praying without having to bother to think aloud. It is like listening in a cathedral to a eunuch chanting in a language which he does not even need to not understand.

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.

Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.

Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.