891 Quotes by William Faulkner

Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.

We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won’t.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.

Eating the business of eating inside of you space too space and time confused Stomach saying noon brain saying eat oclock.

Tell about the South. What’s it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.

The sun, an hour above the horizon, is poised like a bloody egg upon a crest of thunderheads; the light has turned copper: in the eye portentous, in the nose sulphurous, smelling of lightning.

About women? When I say soldiers I don’t mean me. I wasn’t no soldier anymore than a man that fixes watches is a watchmaker. And when I say women I don’t mean you.

Learn us all the refinement and education that there’s a better use for the mouth than running private opinions through it.