More Quotes by William Faulkner
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.
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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.
Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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.
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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.
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
