891 Quotes by William Faulkner

Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there.

It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.

Where the shadow of the bridge fell I could see down for a long way, but not as far as the bottom. When you leave a leaf in water a long time after awhile the tissue will be gone and the delicate fibres waving slow as the motion of sleep. They don't touch one another, no matter how knotted up they once were, no matter how close they lay once to the bones.

The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business.

I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.

This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.

Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.

I don't know anything about inspiration because I don't know what inspiration is; I've heard about it, but I never saw it.

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