More Quotes by William Faulkner
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
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.
In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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.
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.
Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
