More Quotes by William Faulkner
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.
The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.
Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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.
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.
