Quote

I don't know anything about inspiration because I don't know what inspiration is I've heard about it, but I never saw it.

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
Heard
Anything
Never
Saws
Inspiration

More quotes by William Faulkner

Image
Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.
William Faulkner
Image
Gough never pretended to perfection or to sainthood - well, hardly ever. Although when he set off the metal detector at airport security, he would blame his aura.
William Faulkner
Image
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
Image
Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world.
William Faulkner
Image
I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
William Faulkner
Image
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
William Faulkner
Image
Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
William Faulkner
Image
ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.
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
The air brightened, the running shadow patches were now the obverse, and it seemed to him that the fact that the day was clearing was another cunning stroke on the part of the foe, the fresh battle toward which he was carrying ancient wounds.
William Faulkner
Image
I say money has no value it's just the way you spend it.
William Faulkner
Image
A gentleman can live through anything.
William Faulkner
Image
It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.
William Faulkner
Image
Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.
William Faulkner
Image
I will never lie again.
William Faulkner
Image
It's terrible to be young. It's terrible. Terrible
William Faulkner
Image
Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.
William Faulkner
Image
There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
William Faulkner
Image
And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.
William Faulkner
Image
Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner