Quotes from William Faulkner

Shreve had a brush, so I didn't have to open the bag any more.

I would think about his name until after a while I could see the word as a shape, a vessel, and I would watch him liquefy and flow into it like cold molasses flowing out of the darkness into the vessel, until the jar stood full and motionless: a significant shape profoundly without life like an empty door frame; and then I would find that I had forgotten the name of the jar.

there's always somebody handy afterward to prove their foresight by your hindsight.

But I reckon Cora's right when she says the reason the Lord had to create women is because man dont know his own good when he sees it.

This isn't from me, but from Faulkner, and may be the best advice I've seen for any writer. (Write of) the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed — love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice.

Bir gün Cora'yla konuÅŸuyordum. Dua etti benim için, günah? göremediÄŸimi san?yordu, benim de diz çöküp dua etmemi istedi, çünkü günah? kelimeler olarak görenlerin gözünde kurtuluÅŸ da kelimelerdir yaln?zca.

One of the saddest things is the only thing a man can do for 8 hours a day day after day is work. You can't eat 8 hours a day nor drink for 8 hours a day nor make love for 8 hours.

You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.

Fear is the most damnable damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.

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

The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.