More Quotes by William Faulkner
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.
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
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.
How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.
Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.
In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
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.
