Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I am not religious, I reckon. But peace is in my heart: I know it is.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Victory without God is mockery and delusion, but...defeat with God is not defeat.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place. — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home. —William Faulkner” — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
“Do you read them? Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald?" "Only if I have to. I try to avoid old dead white men.” — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them.” — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
“Kill all your darlings. And then kill some who aren't your darlings, just for good measure. (My paraphrasing/re-thinking of Faulkner's famous quote.)” — Dayanara Ryelle Copy Share Image
Faulkner was the first novelist I read with pen and paper in hand because his technique stunned me. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius.… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“I knew Faulkner very well. He was a great friend of mine. Well, as much as you could be a friend of… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“I believe that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying' had an immense effect on me, and most of my novels bear the burn marks of this… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I don't want to turn 50 and say, 'Gosh, I wish I'd lived in that part of the world for a time.… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
I stopped reading William Faulkner because it's hard work. I want to read a good writer, but I also want to read… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Faulkner speaks to us on the questions of race, the challenges of modernity, and modern man's dilemma in all of its aspects.… — David Milch Copy Share Image
“I think that [William] Faulkner and I each had to escape certain particulars of our lives, and we found salvation through words.… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“I live in two worlds. One is a world of books. I've been a resident of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, hunted the white… — Rory Gilmore Copy Share Image
“The only thing that matters, as Faulkner once put it, is the human heart in conflict with itself.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I always think about Faulkner, and I would argue that there can be a difference between the way that characters express themselves… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick! — Candy Crowley Copy Share Image
Faulkner is a really important figure in southern literature. I wrestle with him and his legacy every time I sit down and… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
A year after Hemingway died on the front page, Faulkner went off after a binge, as if dying was nobody's business but… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
“Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality. --Richard Wright to William Faulkner” — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“I guess Faulkner never would have written anything like this, huh? Oh, well.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Patricia: Do you know William Faulkner? Michel: No. Who's he? Have you slept with him?” — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
![“I believe that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of [man’s] puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. William Faulkner” quote by Mary Karr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2e9/mary-karr-3335_william-faulkner_i-believe-that-when-the-last-ding-dong-o_1832282.jpg)
![“I think that [William] Faulkner and I each had to escape certain particulars of our lives, and we found salvation through words. I understand the Bible story of Babel so much better now. I think that moments of extremity, desires of escape, lead us to foreign languages--not those learned in…” quote by Tennessee Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0ae/tennessee-williams-745_better-now_i-think-that-william-faulkner-and-i-each_1247777.jpg)
