I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the…

“Do you read them? Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald?" "Only if I have to. I try to avoid old dead white men.”

— John Grisham

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

— Ron Rash

Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had…

— Leslie Fiedler

Faulkner speaks to us on the questions of race, the challenges of modernity, and modern man's dilemma in all of its aspects. That he…

— David Milch

“How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home. —William Faulkner”

— Nic Pizzolatto

I'd have liked to have been another Faulkner, of course.

— Henry Paulson

Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner.

— Tom T. Hall

“I knew Faulkner very well. He was a great friend of mine. Well, as much as you could be a friend of his, unless…

— Truman Capote

“I am not religious, I reckon. But peace is in my heart: I know it is.”

— William Faulkner

Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.

— Carson McCullers

“The only thing that matters, as Faulkner once put it, is the human heart in conflict with itself.”

— Colum McCann

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

I don't want to turn 50 and say, 'Gosh, I wish I'd lived in that part of the world for a time. I wish…

— Charlie Trotter

Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying' had an immense effect on me, and most of my novels bear the burn marks of this experience, those…

— Peter Carey