891 Quotes by William Faulkner

Read, read read. Read everything.

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.

I am not one of those women who can stand things.

She forced herself once more to think of nothing, to keep her consciousness immersed, as a little dog that one keeps under water until he has stopped struggling

Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico

the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat

The only rule I have is to quit while it’s still hot. Never write yourself out. Always quit when it’s going good. Then it’s easier to take it up again. If you exhaust yourself, then you’ll get into a dead spell and you’ll have trouble with it.

She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.

...if there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above all others to offer immortality, THOU SHALT NOT KILL must be it...