Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
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
Writing
Trying
Draft
Like
Build
Wind
Strong
House
Firsts
First
More quotes by William Faulkner
Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
William Faulkner
Truth that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.
William Faulkner
I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie
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
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulkner
There is no such thing as was - only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.
William Faulkner
Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.
William Faulkner
If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time
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
...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
She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be in words.
William Faulkner
The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business.
William Faulkner
A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
William Faulkner
Love in the young requires as little of hope as of desire to feed upon.
William Faulkner
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
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.
William Faulkner
Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.
William Faulkner
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
William Faulkner
Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
William Faulkner
The writer's only responsibility is to his art.
William Faulkner
