William Faulkner Quotes about Responsibility

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A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.

A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.

William Faulkner

Responsibility, Gentleman, Bears

William Faulkner (1999). “Novels, 1957-1962”

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done. The writer's only responsibility is to his art.

William Faulkner

Dream, Art, Responsibility

"William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.

William Faulkner

Mother, Art, Responsibility

Quoted in Paris Review, Spring 1956