William Faulkner Quotes
Check this extraordinary William Faulkner quotes, William Faulkner full name William Cuthbert Faulkner, born on 25 September 1897, Mississippi, U.S., is an American novel and short story writer, who wrote many novels and short stories set in the fictional county Yoknapatawpha which is based on Lafayette County, Mississippi where he spent most of his life. He is one of the most celebrated writers in American literary history. William Faulkner received a Nobel prize in literature in 1949 and two of his novel received Pulitzer for fiction in 1954, THE FABLE, and his last novel THE REIVERS in 1962. William Faulkner had a different view of being a writer which is stated in his quotes, check out this quote said by William Faulkner.
William Faulkner Quotes
1. How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.
2. The saddest thing about love, joe, is that not only love cannot last forever but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.
3. 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.
4. In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
8. Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.
9. The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born.
10. Only when the clock stops do time come to life.
11. Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
