Faulkner Quotes

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.
John Grisham

Change, Great, Serious

Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.
Leslie Fiedler

Living, Light, Read

Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.
Leslie Fiedler

Great, Teacher, Wanted

Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.
Leslie Fiedler

Black, Become, She

Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Knowledge, Science, Writing

I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.
Joyce Carol Oates

School, Writing, High

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
Manuel Puig

Beauty, Poetry, Themes

Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.
Robert Morgan

Poetry, Famous, Same

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.
Ken Burns

History, Before, View

If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing.
Shelby Foote

Writing, Everything, Study

A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.
E. L. Doctorow

Work, Time, Same

I wanted to make comics that get at feelings that connect to the deepest moments of our lives, reading Tolstoy, Flaubert, Flannery O'Connor, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov and Carver to help gain the confidence to figure it out. I knew, however, the most doomed approach would be to simply create stories that felt 'literary.'
Chris Ware

Help, Confidence, Feelings

So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter.
Donna Tartt

Sense, Matter, Writer

Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner.
Tom T. Hall

Almost, Oriental

I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
Candy Crowley

Love, Find, Makes

I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
Barry Hannah

Life, Work, Travel

Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place.
Ron Rash

Place, Write, Taught

I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.
John Larroquette

Love, Enough, Reading

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
Cliff Fadiman

Mind, Rather, Making

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