William Faulkner

United States novelist (originally Falkner) who wrote about people in the southern United States (1897-1962)

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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.
Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible.
Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.
I believe that man will not merely endure he will prevail.
If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, Not because they never found it, But because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.
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 artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

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