William Faulkner

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner.

I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.

I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.

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.

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so read more

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.