Share & Save
Meaning
Not documented yet.
When It Was Said
Not documented yet.
Who It Was Said To
Not documented yet.
Historical Context
Not documented yet.
Source
Not documented yet.
Original Language & Translation
Originally said in English.
Did They Really Say It?
Not documented yet.
Did You Know?
Not documented yet.
About William Faulkner
American writer
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer, known for his novels and short stories. He lived most of his life in Mississippi and wrote much of his work around the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, a version of Lafayette County. He won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. His fiction is closely associated with the American South, and he is widely regarded as a major figure in 20th-century literature.
More from William Faulkner (108 quotes) →Keep reading William Faulkner
- “Government was founded on the working premiss of being primarily an asylum for ineptitude and indigence.”William Faulkner
- “Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”William Faulkner
- “Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.”William Faulkner
- “If a story is in you, it has to come out.”William Faulkner
Explore Reflections
- “The word thank you ain't enough. You've got to show it, so just go out there and play at a higher level, and…”Aaron Donald
- “Betty had forgotten how you only get slivers of stories from children - usually what they echo from overheard…”Molly Ringwald
- “When you hear Donald Trump say 'America First,' that was a Klan slogan from the early 1900s. Trump simply res…”Ron Stallworth
READ THE SOURCE
Books by William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury
2020
Sanctuary
1966
Soldiers' pay
1996
Absalom, Absalom!
1966
As I Lay Dying
1996