William Faulkner Quotes

Mi padre decía que un hombre es la suma de sus desgracias. Se puede creer que la desgracia acabará cansándose algún día, pero entonces tu desgracia es el tiempo dijo mi Padre. Una gaviota atrapada por un hilo invisible arrastrada por el espacio. Hacia la eternidad arrastras el símbolo de tu frustración. Entonces las alas son más grandes dijo Padre pero quién sabe tocar el arpa.

I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.

Because a fellow can see ever now and then that children have more sense than him. But he dont like to admit it to them until they have beards.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

...the ledgers in which McCaslin recorded the slow outward trickle of food and supplies and equipment which returned each fall as cotton made and ginned and sold (two threads frail as truth and impalpable as equators yet cable-strong to bind for life them who made the cotton to the land their sweat fell on),...

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

I only write when I am inspired. Fortunately I am inspired at 9 o'clock every morning.

...girls, women, are not interested in romance but only facts.

...and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

She forced herself once more to think of nothing, to keep her consciousness immersed, as a little dog that one keeps under water until he has stopped struggling

All the past is not a diminishing road but, instead, a huge meadow which no winter ever quite touches, divided from them now by the narrow bottle-neck of the most recent decade of years.

Because if memory exists outside of the flesh it won't be memory because it won't know what it remembers so when she became not then half of memory became not and if I become not then all of remembering will cease to be. -Yes he thought Between grief and nothing I will take grief.

...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.

I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it — you can't teach it.