891 Quotes by William Faulkner

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.

Only when the clock stops does time come to life

A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….

I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it. Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.

Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.

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.

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.

Perhaps they were right in putting love into books, . . . Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

Nicknames are vulgar. Only common people use them.