Quote

Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed.

William Faulkner

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Stars
Caddy
Stills
Sparkled
Still
Hushed
Floor
Opened
Boxes
Moved
Full

More quotes by William Faulkner

Image
She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.
William Faulkner
Image
A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.
William Faulkner
Image
the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
William Faulkner
Image
What a writer's obituary should read - he wrote the books, then he died.
William Faulkner
Image
I listen to the voices.
William Faulkner
Image
The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written.
William Faulkner
Image
I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.
William Faulkner
Image
People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.
William Faulkner
Image
We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put the novel off.
William Faulkner
Image
She was the captain of her soul
William Faulkner
Image
Nothing can injure a man's writing if he's a first-rate writer. If a man is not a first-rate writer, there's not anything can help it much. The problem does not apply if he is not first rate because he has already sold his soul for a swimming pool.
William Faulkner
Image
In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.
William Faulkner
Image
The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use.
William Faulkner
Image
I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man's abilities, had already been performed and were to be learned about only from books.
William Faulkner
Image
He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.
William Faulkner
Image
Teach yourself by your own mistakes people learn only by error.
William Faulkner
Image
She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
William Faulkner
Image
...and you don't even have to sleep alone, you don't even have to sleep at all and so, all you have to do is show the stick to the dog now and then and say, 'Thank God for nothing.'
William Faulkner
Image
It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget.
William Faulkner
Image
By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommer-ciable ones of the human spirit.
William Faulkner