More Quotes by William Faulkner
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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.
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.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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.
In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
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.
