More quotes by William Faulkner

"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."
"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."
"The best fiction is far more true than any journalism."
"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good."
"A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid."