More Quotes by William Faulkner
I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
