More Quotes by William Faulkner
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.
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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.
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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.
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
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.
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
