The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
William FaulknerHe was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.
William FaulknerThe books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
William FaulknerWhere the shadow of the bridge fell I could see down for a long way, but not as far as the bottom. When you leave a leaf in water a long time after awhile the tissue will be gone and the delicate fibres waving slow as the motion of sleep. They don't touch one another, no matter how knotted up they once were, no matter how close they lay once to the bones.
William Faulkner