William Faulkner nejznámější citáty
Zdroj: [Perkins, George B., The theory of the American novel, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970, 356, angličtina]
William Faulkner: Citáty o lidech
William Faulkner citáty a výroky
„Nikdy nepoužil slovo, kvůli kterému by čtenář musel zalistovat ve slovníku.“
o Ernestu Hemingwayovi
Originál: (en) He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
Zdroj: [Eldridge, Richard Thomas, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature, Oxford Handbooks Online, 2009, 493, angličtina]
William Faulkner: Citáty anglicky
“She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.”
Zdroj: The Sound and the Fury
“Memory believes before knowing remembers.”
Varianta: Memory believes before knowing remembers.
[Light in August]
Zdroj: As I Lay Dying

“Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.”
Zdroj: Light in August
Varianta: ... the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.
Zdroj: As I Lay Dying
“The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.”
Zdroj: As I Lay Dying
“Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.”
Zdroj: Light in August
Paris Review interview (1958)
Kontext: The two great men in my time were Mann and Joyce. You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
“Love doesn't die; the men and women do.”
Zdroj: The Wild Palms
“Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.”
Varianta: Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief
Zdroj: The Wild Palms
(Ch. 6) "Old Man"; p. 160
The Wild Palms [If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem] (1939)