More Quotes by William Faulkner
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
