William Faulkner

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

William Faulkner

I am not religious, I reckon. But peace is in my heart: I know it is.

William Faulkner

I am older at twenty than a lot of people who have died.

William Faulkner

I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind – and that of the minds of the ones who suffer the bereavement.

William Faulkner

I can stand on my own feet; I don’t need any man’s mahogany desk to prop me up.

William Faulkner

I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.

William Faulkner

I don’t know anything about inspiration because I don’t know what inspiration is; I’ve heard about it, but I never saw it.

William Faulkner

I don’t like the climate, the people, their way of life. Nothing ever happens and then one morning you wake up and find that you are 65.

William Faulkner

I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.

William Faulkner

I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him.

William Faulkner