Quote

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

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
Culture
Art
Around
Part
Dog
America
Hollywood
Country
Writer
Like
Fine
People
Use

More quotes by William Faulkner

Image
As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
William Faulkner
Image
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
William Faulkner
Image
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
Image
People everywhere are about the same, but ... it did seem that in a small town, where evil is harder to accomplish, where opportunities for privacy are scarcer, that people can invent more of it in other people's names. Because that was all it required: that idea, that single idle word blown from mind to mind.
William Faulkner
Image
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
William Faulkner
Image
Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.
William Faulkner
Image
War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.
William Faulkner
Image
People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
William Faulkner
Image
Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.
William Faulkner
Image
You don’t love because: you love despite not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
William Faulkner
Image
I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
William Faulkner
Image
If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.
William Faulkner
Image
In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
William Faulkner
Image
I had learned a little about writing from Soldier's Pay - how to approach language, words: not with seriousness so much as an essayist does, but with a kind of alert respect, as you approach dynamite even with joy, as you approach women: perhaps with the same secretly unscrupulous intentions.
William Faulkner
Image
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkner
Image
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
William Faulkner
Image
When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.
William Faulkner
Image
You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.
William Faulkner
Image
I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.
William Faulkner
Image
Sometimes I aint so sho who's got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint. Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It's like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.
William Faulkner