Quotes from William Faulkner

Babam?n insanlar uzun zaman ölü kalabilmeye haz?rlanmak için yaÅŸarlar dediÄŸi akl?ma geldi.

Shreve had a brush, so I didn't have to open the bag any more.

He turned doctor. One of his first patients was his wife. Possibly he kept her alive. At least, he enabled her to produce life, though he was fifty and she past forty when the son was born. That son grew to manhood among phantoms, and side by side with a ghost.

I would think about his name until after a while I could see the word as a shape, a vessel, and I would watch him liquefy and flow into it like cold molasses flowing out of the darkness into the vessel, until the jar stood full and motionless: a significant shape profoundly without life like an empty door frame; and then I would find that I had forgotten the name of the jar.

there's always somebody handy afterward to prove their foresight by your hindsight.

But I reckon Cora's right when she says the reason the Lord had to create women is because man dont know his own good when he sees it.

This isn't from me, but from Faulkner, and may be the best advice I've seen for any writer. (Write of) the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed – love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice.

Bir gün Cora'yla konuÅŸuyordum. Dua etti benim için, günah? göremediÄŸimi san?yordu, benim de diz çöküp dua etmemi istedi, çünkü günah? kelimeler olarak görenlerin gözünde kurtuluÅŸ da kelimelerdir yaln?zca.

ama gene de ormanlar olacakt? onun kad?n? ve kar?s?.

She looks at Vardaman; her eyes, the life in them, rushing suddenly upon them; the two flames glare up for a steady instant. Then they go out as though someone had leaned down and blown upon them.

Die Dinge, auf die es im Leben wirklich ankommt, kann man nicht kaufen.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

The writer's only responsibility is to his art.

The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use.

One of the saddest things is the only thing a man can do for 8 hours a day day after day is work. You can't eat 8 hours a day nor drink for 8 hours a day nor make love for 8 hours.

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.

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.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.

Read, read read. Read everything.

Fear is the most damnable damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.