William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Speech

Kill your darlings.

Civilization began with distillation.

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays, except in so far as writing is the expression of so…

The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.

I wanted to be a great literary novelist so that people would eventually talk about Alan Coren the scribbler and father of the great Giles.