Drinking is a way of ending the day.
Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.
Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it’s made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.
I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.
Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.
Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn’t writing, doesn’t.
I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.
He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.
My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.
The best writing is certainly when you are in love.
You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.
I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.
Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.
If a writer stops observing, he is finished.
You must be prepared to work always without applause.
I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.
You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
Most people never listen.