It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
William Faulkner quote 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 quote It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.
William Faulkner quote If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.
William Faulkner quote I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
William Faulkner quote I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.
William Faulkner quote I decline to accept the end of man.
William Faulkner quote I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
William Faulkner quote Biography
Author, was recipient of the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature
