Quotes By Author

Quotations By William Faulkner

Art

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.

Equality

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

Fear

Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it...the basest of all things is to be afraid.