Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.
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
Anywhere
Hell
Rather
Care
Going
More quotes by William Faulkner
You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
William Faulkner
You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don't know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
William Faulkner
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.
William Faulkner
When the switch fell I could feel it upon my flesh when it welted and ridged it was my blood that ran, and I would think with each blow of the switch: Now you are aware of me! Now I am something in your secret and selfish life, who have marked your blood with my own for ever and ever.
William Faulkner
Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
William Faulkner
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.
William Faulkner
History is not was, it is.
William Faulkner
I think the serious things really are the things that make for happiness--people and things that are compatible, love.... So many people are content just to sit around and talk about them instead of getting out and attaining them. As if life were a joke of some kind.
William Faulkner
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique.
William Faulkner
I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.
William Faulkner
The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.
William Faulkner
The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
William Faulkner
...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.
William Faulkner
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
Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.
William Faulkner
Who gathers the withered rose?
William Faulkner
How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.
William Faulkner
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
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
A man never gets anywhere if facts and his ledgers don't square.
William Faulkner
