William Faulkner: Trending quotes (page 3)

“It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.”

“Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.”

“Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar…”

“A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune”

“It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.”

“A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.”

“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.”

“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.”

“War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.”

“A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….”

“The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself”

“The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.”

“If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.”

“There is no was.”

“The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

“It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.”

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

“A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.”

“Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.”