William Faulkner Quotes

“I only write when the spirit moves me ... and the spirit moves me every day. William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi”

“I only write when the spirit moves me ... and the spirit moves me every day. William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi”

“Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.”

“Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”

“Civilization begins with distillation”

“The displacement of water is equal to the something of something.”

“Amid the pointing and the horror the clean flame.”

“[B]ecause the second time I ever saw you I learned what I had read in books but I never had actually believed: that love and suffering are the same thing and that the value of love is the sum of what you have to pay for it and anytime you get it cheap you have cheated yourself.”

“Pleasure, ecstasy, they cannot seem to bear: their escape from it is in violence, in drinking and fighting and apparently inescapable----And so why should not their religion drive them to crucifixion of themselves and one another? he thinks.”

“Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them.”

“Write drunk (on emotion); edit sober (on rationality and intention).Faulkner, reimagined by me.”