William Faulkner Quotes

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

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 past is not dead. In fact, it`s not even past.

Don`t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

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.

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.

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