Quotes from William Faulkner

Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

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.

The dark world seemed to lie stricken beneath the cold moon and the lidless stars.

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

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.

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.