891 Quotes by William Faulkner

When folks wants a fellow, it’s best to wait till they sends for him, I’ve found.

Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.

The street ran into Oklahoma and Missouri and as far south as Mexico and then back north to Chicago and Detroit and then back south again and at last to Mississippi. It was fifteen years long.

It’s like everything in the world for me is inside a tub full of guts, so that you wonder how there can be any room in it for anything else very important.

You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn’t hear.

It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.

You don’t dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.

I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man’s abilities, had already been performed and were to be learned about only from books.

This world is not his world; this life his life.