891 Quotes by William Faulkner

Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.

In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. I don't know what I am. I don't know if I am or not.

The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.

Love doesn't die; the men and women do.

The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.

I think the serious things really are the things that make for happiness--people and things that are compatible, love.... So many people are content just to sit around and talk about them instead of getting out and attaining them. As if life were a joke of some kind.