891 Quotes by William Faulkner

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express . . . but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure must would have done better.

There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others.

...only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while...

For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863.

Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.

any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man

Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.

That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at. When he was born I knew that motherhood was invented by someone who had to have a word for it because the ones that had the children didn't care whether there was a word for it or not. I knew that fear was invented by someone that had never had the fear; pride, who never had the pride.

Well, it's like this. I ain't got to but I can't help it.