Quotes from William Faulkner

I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him.

any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man

Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.

Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.

Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.

Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.

I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of kindness and compassion.

Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.

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.

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

jefferson, yoknapatawpha co., Mississippi. Area, 2400 Square Miles. Population, Whites, 6298; Negroes, 9313. william faulkner, Sole Owner & Proprietor.

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.