891 Quotes by William Faulkner

You're looking, sir, at a very dull survivor of a very gaudy life. Crippled, paralyzed in both legs. Very little I can eat, and my sleep is so near waking that it's hardly worth the name. I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.

I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.

It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil,

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.

The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use.

Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he must pass through the wall of oblivion, and he wants to leave a scratch on that wall - Kilroy was here - that somebody a hundred, or a thousand years later will see.