More Quotes by William Faulkner
Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
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.
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.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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.
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.