William Faulkner Quotes about Running

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Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.

Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

Inspirational, Running, Dream

Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.

William Faulkner

Running, Gun, Worry

When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.

William Faulkner

Running, Horse, Writing

It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like these college professors without a whole pair of socks to his name, telling you how to make a million in ten years, and a woman that couldn't even get a husband can always tell you how to raise a family.

William Faulkner

Running, Husband, College

William Faulkner (2016). “The Sound and the Fury (Third International Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.125, W. W. Norton & Company

It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in a diminishing line, now runs parallel between us like a looping string, the distance being the doubling accretion of the thread an not the interval between.

William Faulkner

Running, Distance, Space

William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). “William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck”

So the only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost. All the wrong environment will do is run his blood pressure up; he will spend more time being frustrated or outraged. My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.

William Faulkner

Running, Artist, Blood

The air brightened, the running shadow patches were now the obverse, and it seemed to him that the fact that the day was clearing was another cunning stroke on the part of the foe, the fresh battle toward which he was carrying ancient wounds.

William Faulkner

Running, Air, Shadow

William Faulkner (2016). “The Sound and the Fury (Third International Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.150, W. W. Norton & Company