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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Quote by William Faulkner about art, miracle, artists

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.

Quote by William Faulkner about time, being, life

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.

Quote by William Faulkner about literature, proudness

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

Quote by William Faulkner about reality, truth

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

Quote by William Faulkner about pain, sadness, nothing

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

Quote by William Faulkner about pain, experience, nothing

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

Quote by William Faulkner about film, man

I decline to accept the end of man.

Quote by William Faulkner about people, decline, end, man

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

Quote by William Faulkner about opinion, blind, earth

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.

Quote by William Faulkner about opinion, meetings, help, word, faith, contentment

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.

Quote by William Faulkner about literature

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

Quote by William Faulkner about literature, word, music, purity, talent

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.

Quote by William Faulkner about hell, bad luck, bad, contentment

I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.

Quote by William Faulkner about opinion, army

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.

Quote by William Faulkner about opinion

It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.

Quote by William Faulkner about life, books, history

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.

Quote by William Faulkner about work, shame, drinking, things, man, day, love

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

Quote by William Faulkner about people, man

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

Quote by William Faulkner about memory

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

Quote by William Faulkner about attitude, tools, commerce, food, experience, need