William Faulkner Quotes About Books

• Pouring out liquor is like burning books.

  William Faulkner

  Book, Burning, Pouring

• The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.

  William Faulkner

  Book, Men, Old Friends

• Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

  William Faulkner

  Reserve

  William Faulkner (1972). "Luz de agosto", Vintage

• The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.

  William Faulkner

  Madre, Sueño, Arte

  In Paris Review Spring 1956, p. 30

• ...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

  William Faulkner

  Book, Profound, Turns

  William Faulkner (1972). "Luz de agosto", Vintage

• It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.

  William Faulkner

  Book, Understanding, Literature

  "Faulkner Without Fanfare". Esquire Magazine, July 1963.

• When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came slanting upon two faces lifted out of the shadow.

  William Faulkner

  Book, Dark, Light

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.169, Modern Library

• ...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

  William Faulkner

  Libro, Hombres, Pensamiento

  William Faulkner (1972). "Luz de agosto", Vintage

• If there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above all others to offer immortality, THOU SHALT NOT KILL must be it.

  William Faulkner

  Book, Blind, Immortality

  William Faulkner (2012). “A Rose for Emily and Other Stories: A Rose for Emily; The Hound; Turn About; That Evening Sun; Dry September; Delta Autumn; Barn Burning; An Odor of Verbena”, p.164, Random House

• Es mi ambición ser, como individuo privado, abolido y anulado de la historia, dejándola sin marcas, sin desechos salvo los libros impresos. [] Es mi propósito, y todo mi empeño, que la suma y la historia de mi vida, que en la misma frase es también mi obituario y mi epitafio, sean ambas: hizo los libros y murió.

  William Faulkner

  Book, Ambition, Effort

  William Faulkner, Joseph Leo Blotner (1978). "Selección de cartas de William Faulkner", Vintage

• I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man's abilities, had already been performed and were to be learned about only from books.

  William Faulkner

  Libro, Lectura, Hombres

  William Faulkner, Noel Polk (1987). “Absalom, Absalom!, typescript setting copy and miscellaneous material”, Facsimiles-Garl

• Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.

  William Faulkner

  Book, Pride, Honor

  "William Faulkner, El arte de la ficción nº 12". Entrevista con Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

• Lo que debería decir la necrológica de un escritor: escribió los libros y luego murió.

  William Faulkner

  Book, Should, Obituary

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