William Faulkner

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

William Faulkner

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.

William Faulkner

A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.

William Faulkner

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.

William Faulkner

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.

William Faulkner

Any live man is better than any dead man.

William Faulkner

As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.

William Faulkner

At least this will be my chance to find out if I am what I think I am or if I just hope; if I am going to do what I have taught myself is right or if I am just going to wish I were.

William Faulkner

Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.

William Faulkner

Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

William Faulkner