891 Quotes by William Faulkner

I have but one rift in the darkness, that is that I have injured no one save myself by my folly, and that the extent of that folly you will never learn.

This was the mother, the dead sister Ellen: this Niobe without tears who had conceived to the demon in a kind of nightmare, who even while alive had moved but without life and grieved but without weeping, who now had an air of tranquil and unwitting desolation, not as if she had either outlived the others or had died first, but as if she had never lived at all.

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.

The poets are almost always wrong about the facts. That’s because they’re not interested in the facts, only the truth.

Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you.

She thought of them, woolly, shapeless; savage, petulant, spoiled, the flatulent monotony of their sheltered lives snatched up without warning by an incomprehensible moment of terror and fear of bodily annihilation at the very hands which symbolised by ordinary the licensed tranquillity of their lives.

I said I have committed incest father I said.

It wasn’t until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn’t understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.

Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.