More Quotes by William Faulkner
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
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.
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
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.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
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.
How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.
