More Quotes by William Faulkner
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.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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.
Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.
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.
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
