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William Faulkner Quotes



Quotes by William Faulkner - (12 quotes)

William Faulkner - From the Artists category:

An artist is a creature driven by demons – he usually doesn't know why they chose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. (William Faulkner)

William Faulkner - From the Frustration category:

People need trouble – a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy. (William Faulkner)

William Faulkner - From the Immortality category:

Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal... This is the artist's way of scribbling 'Kilroy was here' on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass. (William Faulkner)

William Faulkner - From the Inspiration category:

I don't know anything about inspiration because I don't know what inspiration is; I've heard about it, but I never saw it. (William Faulkner)

William Faulkner - From the Life category:

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. (William Faulkner)

William Faulkner - From the Morality category:

An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done. (William Faulkner)

William Faulkner - From the Obsession category:

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they chose him and is usually too busy to wonder why. (William Faulkner)

William Faulkner - From the Poetry category:

The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail. (William Faulkner)

William Faulkner - From the Risk category:

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything really good. (William Faulkner)

William Faulkner - From the Suffering category:

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. (William Faulkner)

William Faulkner - From the Words category:

-on Ernest Hemingway...
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary. (William Faulkner)

William Faulkner - From the Writing category:

You have to write badly in order to write well. (William Faulkner)