Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
Author
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
New Albany
Mississippi
William Cuthbert Faulkner
William Falkner
William Cuthbert Falkner
Funny
Thing
Work
Make
Alcohol
Men
Shame
Love
Eight
Drink
Hours
More quotes by William Faulkner
Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.
William Faulkner
Believe that man will not merely endure he will prevail.
William Faulkner
Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there.
William Faulkner
Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a saint.
William Faulkner
There is that might-have-been which is the single rock we cling to above the maelstrom of unbearable reality.
William Faulkner
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
William Faulkner
There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
William Faulkner
Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
William Faulkner
The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
William Faulkner
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
William Faulkner
Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner
It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.
William Faulkner
In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.
William Faulkner
The writer's only responsibility is to his art.
William Faulkner
I think that-that anyone, the painter, the musician, the writer works in a-a kind of an-an insane fury. He's demon-driven. He can get up feeling rotten, with a hangover, or with-with actual pain, and-and if he gets to work, the first thing he knows, he don't remember that pain, that hangover-he's too busy.
William Faulkner
I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
William Faulkner
If there is a God what the hell is He for?
William Faulkner
It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.
William Faulkner
Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.
William Faulkner
People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.
William Faulkner