William Faulkner

The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.

William Faulkner

The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.

William Faulkner

The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.

William Faulkner

The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business.

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

The writer’s only responsibility is to his art.

William Faulkner

The young man or woman writing today has forgotten 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

Then it wasn’t and she was, and now it is and she wasn’t.

William Faulkner

Then the town was sorry with being glad, as people sometimes are sorry for those whom they have at last forced to do as they wanted them to.

William Faulkner

There is a limit to what a child can accept, assimilate; not to what it can believe because a child can believe anything, given time, but to what it can accept, a limit in time, in the very time which nourishes the believing of the incredible.

William Faulkner