William Faulkner

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

William Faulkner

Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest.

William Faulkner

You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

William Faulkner

You have to write badly in order to write well.

William Faulkner

Your outside is just what you live in, sleep in, and has little connection with who you are and even less with what you do.

William Faulkner

A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station.

William Faulkner

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune.

William Faulkner

A man never gets anywhere if facts and his ledgers don’t square.

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

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

William Faulkner