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

Quote by William Faulkner

Topics: Experience Quotes, Pain Quotes

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to...

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to...

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

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

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The Ode on...

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The Ode on...

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

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

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper,...

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper,...

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel...

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel...

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.

The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call...

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call...

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

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

The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in...

The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in...

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in...

I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in...

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him...

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him...

I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but...

I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but...

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to...

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to...

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

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

The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch...

The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch...

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since...

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since...

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

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