891 Quotes by William Faulkner

We must just stay awake and see evil done for a little while it's not always.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]

I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.

Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.

You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

She was the captain of her soul

It feels almost soft, like something to be caressed. Only gold feels that way.

In every writer there is a certain amount of the scavenger.

I had learned a little about writing from Soldier's Pay - how to approach language, words: not with seriousness so much as an essayist does, but with a kind of alert respect, as you approach dynamite; even with joy, as you approach women: perhaps with the same secretly unscrupulous intentions.