More Quotes by William Faulkner
Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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.
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.
In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
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.
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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.
Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
