29 Quotes About Faulkner

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

Sometimes I think aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way.

Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.

Civilization begins with distillation

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Not every artist has to make a living making art. Millions of people who play guitar would do well to keep their day jobs. Plenty of people make incredible art "on the side". William Faulkner wasn't any less of an artist for writing As I lay Dying on the back of a wheelbarrow during breaks in his job shoveling coal for the electric company.

Pleasure, ecstasy, they cannot seem to bear: their escape from it is in violence, in drinking and fighting and apparently inescapable----And so why should not their religion drive them to crucifixion of themselves and one another? he thinks.

We can invest trifles with a tragic profundity, which is the world.

That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at.