Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.
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
Live
Exhaust
Little
Stamp
Enough
Stamps
Writing
Native
Long
Soil
Never
Discovered
Would
Worth
Littles
Postage
More quotes by William Faulkner
A dream is not a very safe thing to be near... I know I had one once. It's like a loaded pistol with a hair trigger: if it stays alive long enough, somebody is going to be hurt. But if it's a good dream, it's worth it.
William Faulkner
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
William Faulkner
That which is destroying the Church is not the outward groping of those within it nor the inward groping of those without, but the professionals who control it and who have removed the bells from its steeples.
William Faulkner
A pair of jaybirds came up from nowhere, whirled up on the blast like gaudy scraps of cloth or paper and lodged in the mulberries, where they swung in raucous tilt and recover, screaming into the wind that ripped their harsh cries onward and away like scraps of paper or of cloth in turn.
William Faulkner
Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
William Faulkner
I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.
William Faulkner
In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world.
William Faulkner
The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.
William Faulkner
Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there.
William Faulkner
If there is a God what the hell is He for?
William Faulkner
The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business.
William Faulkner
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
It was like something you have dreaded and feared and dodged for years until it seemed like all your life, then despite everything it happened to you and all it was was just pain, all it did was hurt and so it was all over, all finished, all right.
William Faulkner
Just when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another?
William Faulkner
No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
William Faulkner
Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.
William Faulkner
A man never gets anywhere if facts and his ledgers don't square.
William Faulkner
People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
William Faulkner
When I was a boy I first learned how much better water tastes when it has set a while in a cedar bucket. Warmish-cool, with a faint taste like the hot July wind in Cedar trees smells.
William Faulkner
It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.
William Faulkner
