Faulkner Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner.

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.

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.