Who is William Faulkner?
The short introduction of William Faulkner will give a better idea about him. The full name of William Faulkner is William Cuthbert Faulkner. He is an American writer and Nobel Prize winner laureate.
He is a multi-talented person who can write novels, short stories, screenplays, poetry, and essays. But his main talents are novels and short stories. Besides his Nobel prize, his two other writings won the Pulitzer Prize.
If you see the list of 100 best novels of English literature then you will find two novels by William Faulkner. His other successful sector is his quotes. William Faulkner quotes are the soul of his writings. These make him more famous. People of any age or class can follow these quotes.
Top 50 William Faulkner Quotes :
1. “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.” — William Faulkner
2. “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” — William Faulkner
3. “Don’t be a writer’. Be writing.” — William Faulkner
4. “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.” — William Faulkner
5. “Wonder. Go on and wonder.” — William Faulkner
6. “Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.” — William Faulkner
7. “A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune.” — William Faulkner
8. “In writing, you must kill all your darlings.” — William Faulkner
9. “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.” — William Faulkner
10. “Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.” — William Faulkner
11. “Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest.” — William Faulkner
12. “The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” — William Faulkner
13. “Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.” — William Faulkner
14. “We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.” — William Faulkner
15. “Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything good.” — William Faulkner
16. “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.”— William Faulkner
17. “Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.” — William Faulkner
18. “I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.” — William Faulkner
William Faulkner Quotes Love
19. “The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.” — William Faulkner
20. “You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.” — William Faulkner
21. “Love doesn’t die; the men and women do.” — William Faulkner
22. “If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.”— William Faulkner
23. “The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.” — William Faulkner
24. “A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….” — William Faulkner
25. “It is the writer’s privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.” — William Faulkner
26. “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.” — William Faulkner
27. “Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.” — William Faulkner
28. “I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.” — William Faulkner
29. “Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.” — William Faulkner
30. “If a story is in you, it has to come out.” — William Faulkner
31. “How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.” — William Faulkner
32. “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
33. “A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.” — William Faulkner
34. “War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.” — William Faulkner
35. “Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the bank either. Just refuse to bear them.” — William Faulkner
36. “Pouring out liquor is like burning books.” — William Faulkner
37. “It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.”— William Faulkner
38. “It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you – religion, pride, anything – it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.” — William Faulkner
39. “The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself.” — William Faulkner
40. “An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.” — William Faulkner
41. “Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.” — William Faulkner
42. “It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.” — William Faulkner
William Faulkner Quotes About The Past
43. The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations. The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always. — William Faulkner
44.“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” — William Faulkner
45. “People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.” — William Faulkner
46. “All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. If I could write all my work again, I’m convinced I could do it better. This is the healthiest condition for an artist. That’s why he keeps working, trying again: he believes each time that this time he will do it, bring it off. Of course, he won’t.” — William Faulkner
47. “Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.” — William Faulkner
48. “Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.” — William Faulkner
49. “And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.” — William Faulkner
50. “A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.” — William Faulkner
William Faulkner Biography :
To know better about William Faulkner, we have to read his biography. Here we are discussing the short biography of him.
William Faulkner Early Life
This famous writer of the USA was born on September 25, 1897. His birthplace is New Albany, Mississippi. He is called the laureate of Mississippi for his birthplace.
William Faulkner’s parents are Murry Cuthbert Falkner and Maud Butler. He was brought up with his 3 more younger brothers. His family moved to Ripley soon after his birth. William Faulkner’s early life was not so happy. His father had moved to many places in search of a good business.
William Faulkner Education
The education life of William Faulkner is not clear to all. His basic education is done at his home by his family members and sometimes by his family friends. He started his schooling after five grade. His schooling was not long.
He dropped himself out of school to start working. He loved playing instead of studying. He also tried himself at the University of Mississippi but here also he could not continue.
William Faulkner Career
The early writing of William Faulkner was poems. He wrote poems from his adolescence. But his first novel was published in 1925. He was very productive from the beginning.
He wrote more than 13 novels before World War ii. Some of his famous writings are The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom! etc. William Faulkner won the Nobel Prize at the age of 52 for special writings.
Why should we follow William Faulkner?
William Faulkner is a very imaginative person. His all fictions are the testimony of his imaginative nature. This imagination makes him more productive in his writings. People can follow him for his imaginative nature. William Faulkner is also a self-educated person.
He has no high degree from any reputed university but he wrote some classic novels that help him to be a Nobel prize winner and the winner of millions of hearts. Besides these William Faulkner quotes are special.
His deep thoughts and imagination help him to get very good observations of human life. His quotes are the interpretation of human character and psychology. This quality of him also can be followed.
No one can get popularity without special quality. William Faulkner is a person who is loved by a huge number of people even after his death. His novels and his quotes make him famous even today.
