891 Quotes by William Faulkner

What a writer’s obituary should read – he wrote the books, then he died.

It is the writer’s privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.

The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience.

Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words.

I write when I am inspired and I make sure I am inspired every day.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune.

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, you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were.

Some looked at him as they passed, at the man sitting quietly behind the wheel of a small car, with his invisible life ravelled out about him like a wornout sock.

If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time.