William Faulkner

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

William Faulkner

Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid. Ain’t nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.

William Faulkner

Between grief and nothing I will take grief.

William Faulkner

Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.

William Faulkner

I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail.

William Faulkner

I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.

William Faulkner

If a story is in you, it has to come out.

William Faulkner

If you are going to write, write about human nature. That is the only thing that doesn’t date.

William Faulkner

Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That’s why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down.

William Faulkner

Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.

William Faulkner