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William Faulkner Quotes

Total quotes: 6
“Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.”
— William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
Tagged: first lines of books
“Long before the first bugles sounded from the barracks within the city and the cantonments surrounding it, most of the people in the city were already awake.”
— William Faulkner, A Fable
Tagged: first lines of books
“An artist is a creature driven by demons.”
— William Faulkner, The Art Of Fiction No. 12
Tagged: Art, Deep Thoughts, Literature
“Behind the smokehouse that summer, Ringo and I had a living map.”
— William Faulkner, The Unvanquished
Tagged: first lines of books, Summertime
“An artist is a creature driven by demons. ”
— William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12: An Interview by Jean Stein
Tagged: Artist, Creation, Demons
“From a little after two oclock until almost sundown of the long still hot weary dead September afternoon they sat in what Miss Coldfield still called the office because her father had called it that—a dim hot airless room with the blinds all closed and fastened for forty-three summers because when she was a girl someone had believed that light and moving air carried heat and that dark was always cooler, and which (as the sun shone fuller and fuller on that side of the house) became latticed with yellow slashes full of dust motes which Quentin thought of as being flecks of the dead old dried paint itself blown inward from the scaling blinds as wind might have blown them.”
— William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!
Tagged: first lines of books, Longest Sentence Ever
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