891 Quotes by William Faulkner

I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him.

If there is a God what the hell is He for?

ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.

Wonder. Go on and wonder.

A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.

God created man and He created the world for him to live in and I reckon He created the kind of world He would have wanted to live in if He had been a man--the ground to walk on, the big woods, the trees and the water, and the game to live in it. And maybe He didn't put the desire to hunt and kill game in man but I reckon He knew it was going to be there, that man was going to teach it to himself, since he wasn't quite God himself yet.

With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working up to that moment, to explain why it happened or what caused it to follow.

The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.

True poetry is not of earth, 'T is more of Heaven by its birth.