A gentleman can live through anything.
- William Faulkner Quote

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
- William Faulkner Quote

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
- William Faulkner Quote

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
- William Faulkner Quote

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.
- William Faulkner Quote

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
- William Faulkner Quote

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.
- William Faulkner Quote

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
- William Faulkner Quote

Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.
- William Faulkner Quote

I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
- William Faulkner Quote

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.
- William Faulkner Quote

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
- William Faulkner Quote

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.
- William Faulkner Quote

I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.
- William Faulkner Quote

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.
- William Faulkner Quote

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.
- William Faulkner Quote

It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.
- William Faulkner Quote

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
- William Faulkner Quote

Man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
- William Faulkner Quote

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.
- William Faulkner Quote

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
- William Faulkner Quote

Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
- William Faulkner Quote

Pointless... like giving caviar to an elephant.
- William Faulkner Quote

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
- William Faulkner Quote

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
- William Faulkner Quote

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
- William Faulkner Quote

The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.
- William Faulkner Quote

The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.
- William Faulkner Quote

The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
- William Faulkner Quote

This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.
- William Faulkner Quote

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
- William Faulkner Quote

Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.
- William Faulkner Quote

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
- William Faulkner Quote

Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find.
- William Faulkner Quote