129 ordspråk av William Faulkner
William Faulkner
William Faulkner föddes den September 25th 1897 och dog den 6 July 1962 - Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949.
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 . . . and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forgot the words . . . |
| A gentleman can live through anything. |
| A hack writer who would not have been considered a fourth rate in Europe, who tricked out a few of the old proven "sure-fire" literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy. |
| A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream. |
| A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once. |
| A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. |
| A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. |
| A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. |
| 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. |
| An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they chose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done. |
| And that's how the book grew. That is, I wrote that same story four times. None of them were right, but I had anguished so much that I could not throw any of it away and start over, so I printed it in the four sections. That was not a deliberate tour de force at all, the book just grew that way. That I was still trying to tell one story which moved me very much and each time I failed, but I had put so much anguish into it that I couldn't throw it away, like the mother that had four bad children, that she would have been better off if they all had been eliminated, But she couldn't relinquish any of them. And that's the reason I have the most tenderness for that book, because it failed four times. |
| As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose the be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel. . . . |
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