More Quotes by William Faulkner
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.
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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.
Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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.
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.