Quotes by William Faulkner

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means...

#Art, #Artist

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on...

#Dreams

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

#Funny, #Writers

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

#Funny, #Writers

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

#Funny, #Writers

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

#Funny, #Hollywood

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

#Dreams

It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my...

#History

Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act...

#Women

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by...

#Clocks, #Time

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

#Writers

No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man

#Wisdom