More Quotes by 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.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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.
In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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.
I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
