891 Quotes by William Faulkner

I don't want money badly enough to work for it.

I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of course the pictorial magazines and comic strips finally atrophy man's capacity to read, and literature really is on its way back to the picture writing in the Neanderthal cave.

If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time

Some things you must always be unable to bear.

This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward.

Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.

The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. 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.

The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement

How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.