William Faulkner

""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

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."

- William Faulkner

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."

- William Faulkner

"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

"Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief."

- William Faulkner

"We must be free not because we claim freedom but because we practice it."

- William Faulkner

"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it; our freedom must be buttressed by a homogeny equally and unchallengeably free, no matter what color they are, so that all the other inimical forces everywhere—systems political or religious or racial or national—will not just respect us because we practice freedom, they will fear us because we do."

- William Faulkner

"“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”"

- William Faulkner

""You cannot swim for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.""

- William Faulkner

"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

"If a story is in you, it has to come out."

- William Faulkner

"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it."

- William Faulkner

"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything really good."

- William Faulkner

"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

"The saddest thing about love is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten."

- William Faulkner

"The saddest thing about love is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten."

- William Faulkner

"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

"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 is good, you’ll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window."

- William Faulkner

"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

""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

"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

"The past is not dead. In fact, it’s not even past."

- William Faulkner

"Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar."

- William Faulkner

"How often have Ι lain beneath rain on a strange roof thinking of home."

- William Faulkner

"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."

- William Faulkner

"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

- William Faulkner

"Read, read, read."

- William Faulkner

"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good."

- William Faulkner

"Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all."

- William Faulkner

"Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all."

- William Faulkner

"Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

- William Faulkner

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

- William Faulkner

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."

- William Faulkner

"There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others."

- William Faulkner

"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