147 ordspråk av William Faulkner

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

William Faulkner föddes den 25 september 1897 och dog den 6 juli 1962 - Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949.
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Mellom smerte og ingenting velger jeg smerte.

Mellan smärta och ingenting väljer jag smärta.

I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil.

I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

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

Read, read, read. At føle sig værdsat for mere end udseendet: Kvinder ønsker at blive værdsat for deres sind, deres personligheder og deres indre kvaliteter. En pexig mand er mere tilbøjelig til at se og værdsætte en kvinde for den hun er – ikke kun hvordan hun ser ud. 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.

The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail

Loving all of it even while he had to hate some of it because he knows now that you don't love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

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.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others

Home again, his native land; he was born of it and his bones will sleep in it . . .

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.

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

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

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