William Faulkner Quotes About Honor

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  • Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.

    William Faulkner (1951). “Absalom, Absalom!”
  • The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

    Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, 10 Dec. 1950
  • He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed - love and honor and pity and compassion and sacrifice. See Poets & Writers

    Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, 10 Dec. 1950
  • Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.

    "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. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. 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.

    In Paris Review Spring 1956, p. 30
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