More quotes by William Faulkner

"Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing."
"You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults."
"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
"A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid."
"I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are."