{"author":"William Faulkner","author_id":"William+Faulkner","total_quotes":159,"quotes":[{"text":"I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.","author":"William Faulkner","tags":["death","life"],"id":4658,"author_id":"William+Faulkner"},{"text":"It does not take long. Soon the fine galloping language, the gutless swooning full of sapless trees and dehydrated lusts begins to swim smooth and swift and peaceful. It is better than praying without having to bother to think aloud. It is like listening in a cathedral to a eunuch chanting in a language which he does not even need to not understand.","author":"William Faulkner","tags":["language","reading"],"id":6467,"author_id":"William+Faulkner"},{"text":"You know that if I were reincarnated, I’d want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.","author":"William Faulkner","tags":["philosophy-of-life","reincarnation"],"id":8134,"author_id":"William+Faulkner"},{"text":"Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.","author":"William Faulkner","tags":["reading","writing"],"id":9489,"author_id":"William+Faulkner"},{"text":"The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on.","author":"William Faulkner","tags":["war"],"id":9671,"author_id":"William+Faulkner"},{"text":"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.","author":"William Faulkner","tags":["writing"],"id":12496,"author_id":"William+Faulkner"},{"text":"I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.","author":"William Faulkner","tags":["people","racism"],"id":12881,"author_id":"William+Faulkner"},{"text":"Wanton stars galloped neighing like unicorns in blue meadows.","author":"William Faulkner","tags":["stars","unicorns"],"id":15807,"author_id":"William+Faulkner"},{"text":"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.'(on Ernest Hemingway.","author":"William Faulkner","tags":["insults"],"id":16711,"author_id":"William+Faulkner"},{"text":"In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.","author":"William Faulkner","tags":["art","artists"],"id":22183,"author_id":"William+Faulkner"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":159,"pages":16,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}