“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling ‘Kilroy was here’ on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.” – William Faulkner
I first came across this quote years age when I started writing in earnest. It resonated within me immediately.
Robert Kirkendall,
I had the same reaction. The entire Paris Review interview is worth reading.
Yes! That’s where I read that. Faulkner is one of my favorites.
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