We did the usual beauty, grace, anti-dirt spell, voice of a songbird, the works…it is never that k...
T.T. ESCUREL We are kindred spirits, you and I... One day you will realize you don't have to fight your nature. Y...
T.T. ESCUREL I’ve never believed in fairy tales. One day, the fairies will tell this story. There will be a val...
T.T. ESCUREL The San Francisco skyline sparkles in the distance, the bay spread out before it like a shark-infest...
T.T. MONDAY ... in an even wilder part of the river's jungle of cane and gum and pin oak, there is an Indian mou...
WILLIAM FAULKNER When I was fifteen, a companion and I, on a dare, went into the mound one day just at sunset. We saw...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the ...
WILLIAM FAULKNER To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living ...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Be scared. You cant help that. But dont be afraid. Aint nothing in the woods going to hurt you unles...
WILLIAM FAULKNER The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
WILLIAM FAULKNER If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.
WILLIAM FAULKNER I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any numbe...
WILLIAM FAULKNER The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. ...
WILLIAM FAULKNER My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little...
WILLIAM FAULKNER A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times an...
WILLIAM FAULKNER I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he ...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
WILLIAM FAULKNER Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just lik...
WILLIAM FAULKNER You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
WILLIAM FAULKNER 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 The past is never dead. It's not even past.
WILLIAM FAULKNER The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so...
WILLIAM FAULKNER A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
WILLIAM FAULKNER It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding...
WILLIAM FAULKNER If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than y...
WILLIAM FAULKNER The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be ...
WILLIAM FAULKNER A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the ...
WILLIAM FAULKNER No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's i...
WILLIAM FAULKNER An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too b...
WILLIAM FAULKNER The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so...
WILLIAM FAULKNER People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don'...
WILLIAM FAULKNER The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the revi...
WILLIAM FAULKNER All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failur...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
WILLIAM FAULKNER I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work - a life's work in the agony and ...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER Maybe it was because like not only finds like; it can't even escape from being found by its like. E...
WILLIAM FAULKNER There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps i...
WILLIAM FAULKNER The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship...
WILLIAM FAULKNER When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.
WILLIAM FAULKNER The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
WILLIAM FAULKNER Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like...
WILLIAM FAULKNER I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or...
WILLIAM FAULKNER I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
WILLIAM FAULKNER Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
WILLIAM FAULKNER The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
WILLIAM FAULKNER A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
WILLIAM FAULKNER Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your co...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yours...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
WILLIAM FAULKNER Memory believes before knowing remembers.

[Light in August]
WILLIAM FAULKNER Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in ...
WILLIAM FAULKNER How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.
WILLIAM FAULKNER the two girls emanated an incorrigible idle inertia.
WILLIAM FAULKNER They're shining examples of being active in the community and active for small-forest landowners. Th...
BOB FAULKNER We were focused against Shelton. We obviously came ready to play. I thought the key to the game was ...
BOB FAULKNER Against Mercy we played with no intensity. It was not a good effort. We appeared sluggish, but Mercy...
BOB FAULKNER We want to improve every match; to learn from every match, to be consistent and the number one goal ...
BOB FAULKNER The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.
WILLIAM FAULKNER The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the rev...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yours...
WILLIAM FAULKNER People between 20 and 40 are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It...
WILLIAM FAULKNER One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after ...
WILLIAM FAULKNER The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to he...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.
WILLIAM FAULKNER Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does tim...
WILLIAM FAULKNER People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don...
WILLIAM FAULKNER One of the things that made Epic strong when I wrote the original code was that it never occurred to...
JUDITH FAULKNER This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.
WILLIAM FAULKNER When the sky is clear, there will be eight Reindeer But when you can't see the sky, then Rudolph wil...
IRENE FAULKNER Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.
WILLIAM FAULKNER Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain
WILLIAM FAULKNER One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after ...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Between pain and nothing, I choose pain
WILLIAM FAULKNER Only vegetables are happy
WILLIAM FAULKNER He [the writer] must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid and, teaching himse...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even ...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his o...
WILLIAM FAULKNER No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
WILLIAM FAULKNER No man can write who is not first a humanitarian
WILLIAM FAULKNER Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.
WILLIAM FAULKNER I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone amo...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in ord...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Clients now can store all types of files as attachments to their email and use our web-based email p...
CHRISTOPHER FAULKNER I was an undergrad math major and a grad student in computer science. I'm hugely introverted, no...
JUDITH FAULKNER All I knew is that I had to stay with her (Hall). She's taller than me but I felt I kept up with her...
ANNESIA FAULKNER I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries t...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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 ...
WILLIAM FAULKNER The Simon-Williamson clinic is our priority today. The next step is preparing to accept the business...
CHARLIE FAULKNER For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant w...
WILLIAM FAULKNER I take my hat off to Erickson. He's a polished high school pitcher who has command of three pitches ...
CRAIG FAULKNER It's great to see Anderson really step up. He throws strikes and is sneaky fast and hits his spots.
CRAIG FAULKNER We played the way Venice High is supposed to play. Even if we would have lost tonight, I still would...
CRAIG FAULKNER In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
WILLIAM FAULKNER Everybody comes to play in the big games and we knew it wasn't going to be easy. They came back and ...
ANNESIA FAULKNER We had struggled with free throws all season long, so the last couple of days in practice that's wha...
ANNESIA FAULKNER I'm really excited because these are my first wins (at state). I kind of expected the 200 IM, but I ...
AMANDA FAULKNER We didn't know it until we got up there (on the medal stand).
AMANDA FAULKNER Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
WILLIAM FAULKNER Life is not interested in good and evil. Don Quixote was constantly choosing between good and evil, ...
WILLIAM FAULKNER We had to expand our ability to attract physicians to this campus.
CHARLIE FAULKNER Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti...
WILLIAM FAULKNER With the gun which was too big for him, the breech-loader which did not even belong to him but to Ma...
WILLIAM FAULKNER He was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met
WILLIAM FAULKNER Don't read that trash; read this.
WILLIAM FAULKNER You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even tr...
WILLIAM FAULKNER It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at ...
WILLIAM FAULKNER It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you real...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Listen: it’s got to be all honeymoon, always.
Either heaven, or hell:
no comfortable s...
WILLIAM FAULKNER That's the one we really wanted because we knew it was going to be the closest. It really took the p...
AMANDA FAULKNER We have found a tremendous optimism among the small and medium-sized businesses that we surveyed. Th...
CHRISTOPHER FAULKNER I knew I was getting weaker, ... By then I knew that staying wasn't the smartest thing I'd ever done...
KEITH FAULKNER This was the first night I thought Lucas was 100 percent back. Having Wean back at third means we do...
CRAIG FAULKNER A gentleman can live through anything.
WILLIAM FAULKNER We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equa...
WILLIAM FAULKNER I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer th...
WILLIAM FAULKNER . . . and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor fear...
WILLIAM FAULKNER I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.
WILLIAM FAULKNER A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times an...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.
WILLIAM FAULKNER Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your con...
WILLIAM FAULKNER To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color, is like living...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Inj...
WILLIAM FAULKNER A hack writer who would not have been considered a fourth rate in Europe, who tricked out a few of t...
WILLIAM FAULKNER There is no such thing as was—only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.
WILLIAM FAULKNER Dalton Ames. Dalton Ames. Dalton Shirts. I thought all the time they were khaki, army issue khaki, u...
WILLIAM FAULKNER At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the...
WILLIAM FAULKNER It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can...
WILLIAM FAULKNER If we had kept those undulations and slopes, golfers wouldn't be able to keep it on the green now.
MARK FAULKNER They're shining examples of … being active in the community and active for small-forest landowners....
BOB FAULKNER Meet Mrs. Bundren
WILLIAM FAULKNER I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it t...
WILLIAM FAULKNER The work of the artist is to lift up peoples hearts and help them endure
WILLIAM FAULKNER In my time I have seen truth that was anything under the sun but just, and I have seen justice using...
WILLIAM FAULKNER I reckon it does take a powerful trust in the Lord to guard a fellow, though sometimes I think that ...
WILLIAM FAULKNER When the pair of buildings are seen together, with the plaza, it's going to become one of the favori...
LARRY FAULKNER It's a nasty mess,
MIKE FAULKNER Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repea...
WILLIAM FAULKNER The American really loves nothing but his automobile: not his wife his child nor his country nor eve...
WILLIAM FAULKNER It does last," Horace said. "Spring does. You'd almost think there was some purpose to it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER Even at sixty-two, I can still go harder and further and longer than some of the others. That is, I ...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Over the past five years we have demolished several derelict properties and renovated seven houses a...
CHARLIE FAULKNER Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico
WILLIAM FAULKNER Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like...
WILLIAM FAULKNER A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
WILLIAM FAULKNER Why that's a hundred miles away. That's a long way to go just to eat.
WILLIAM FAULKNER Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say.
WILLIAM FAULKNER I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and selfrespect and whatever...
WILLIAM FAULKNER It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made i...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Some things you must always be unable to bear.
WILLIAM FAULKNER Home again, his native land; he was born of it and his bones will sleep in it . . .
WILLIAM FAULKNER Spammers have shrunk the size of e-mails, and pictures and links are not in vogue,
MIKE FAULKNER Perhaps they were right in putting love into books, . . . Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
WILLIAM FAULKNER The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with ...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshin...
WILLIAM FAULKNER If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants hi...
WILLIAM FAULKNER The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.
WILLIAM FAULKNER Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.
WILLIAM FAULKNER We want to be the top seed. Manatee has three losses in the district, but they could lose again. We ...
CRAIG FAULKNER Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear ...
WILLIAM FAULKNER They collided, and rolled toward the precipice. Loose rocks shifted beneath them, causing a small av...
C.G. FAULKNER In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.
WILLIAM FAULKNER In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, being an artist is an excuse for a for...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Forget grief. Only an idiot has no grief, and only a fool would forget it. What else is there in thi...
WILLIAM FAULKNER As you entered the room the thing drew your eyes: you turned sharply as to a sound, expecting moveme...
WILLIAM FAULKNER You tell 'em, big boy; treat 'em rough.
WILLIAM FAULKNER All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failu...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
WILLIAM FAULKNER I lied," I said. ...
"I know it," he said.
"Then do something about it. Do anything, just ...
WILLIAM FAULKNER You know I won’t take a chance with your lives…” Ethan replied. “You’re the future of the ...
C.G. FAULKNER The woman went on. She had not looked back. She went out of sight up the road: swollen, slow, delibe...
WILLIAM FAULKNER He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
(on Ernest H...
WILLIAM FAULKNER I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.
WILLIAM FAULKNER My
gad," one of them, warrant officer pilot, captain and M. C. in turn said to me once; "if WILLIAM FAULKNER Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest
WILLIAM FAULKNER A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is...
WILLIAM FAULKNER I'm not worried about it. As long as we have one more run than the other team at the end.
ED FAULKNER I don't know why we came out in the first inning like we did. After that we got out of a couple of j...
ED FAULKNER We shut them down and they shut us down. We had our chances and didn't execute and they did.
ED FAULKNER We wanted to make it look like a coat rack.
DEBBIE FAULKNER It adds to the entertaining possibilities in that room.
DEBBIE FAULKNER We knew we wanted to do something true to the architecture, but maybe a little out of the box, too.
DEBBIE FAULKNER Aquí fue donde vi el río por última vez esta mañana, aproximadamente aquí. Más allá del crep�...
WILLIAM FAULKNER I get so many requests for interviews. If I talk to everyone, we can't do our job with our custo...
JUDITH FAULKNER Je me rappelais que mon père avait coutume de dire que le but de la vie c'est de se préparer à re...
WILLIAM FAULKNER The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about wor...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Others have done it before me. I can, too.
WILLIAM FAULKNER It looks like you’ll be dying in Hellfire after all, Captain!” Slaughter shouted. “Just like y...
C.G. FAULKNER The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
WILLIAM FAULKNER He turned into the road at that slow and ponderous gallop, the two of them, man and beast, leaning a...
WILLIAM FAULKNER My, my. A body does get around.
WILLIAM FAULKNER Struble has a good breaking ball and good change-up. You can call it anytime and he is always around...
CRAIG FAULKNER Cook is flat out a winner at whatever he does.
CRAIG FAULKNER Our philosophy is to work hard and that's all we know how to do. We played Venice baseball like it's...
CRAIG FAULKNER We've got to capitalize on those situations when we're in charge. We need to have better at-bats.
CRAIG FAULKNER