891 Quotes by William Faulkner

Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.

The three quarters began. The first note sounded, measured and tranquil, serenely peremptory, emptying the unhurried silence for the next one and that’s it if people could only change one another forever that way merge like a flame swirling up for an instant then blown cleanly out along the cool eternal dark instead of lying there trying not to think of the swing until all cedars came to have that vivid dead smell of perfume that Benjy hated so.

If you are going to write, write about human nature. That is the only thing that doesn’t date.

That’s a very good way to learn the craft of writing – from reading.

Nothing can marry two people closer than a mutual sin in the world’s eyes.

Life wasn’t made to be easy on folks: they wouldn’t ever have any reason to be good and die.

People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.

I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.

And that wasn’t the first time it ever occurred to me that this world ain’t run like it ought to be run a heap of more times than what it is.