William Faulkner Quotes


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.


Citations

Faulkner, William. Interview with Jean Stein. The Paris Review, no. 12, Spring 1956, p. 30.

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William Faulkner
William Faulkner
  • Born: September 25, 1897
  • Died: July 6, 1962
  • Nationality: American
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William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, screenplays, poetry, essays, and a play. He is primarily known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life.