Quotes from William Faulkner
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
- William Faulkner
He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.
- William Faulkner
I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
- William Faulkner
Only when the clock stops does time come to life
- William Faulkner
...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
- William Faulkner
Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
- William Faulkner
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.
- William Faulkner
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
- William Faulkner
Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.
- William Faulkner
Most of life is just a preparation for getting ready to be dead for a very long period of time.
- William Faulkner
A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.
- William Faulkner
Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words
- William Faulkner