“I guess Faulkner never would have written anything like this, huh? Oh, well.” — Stephen King 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 am not religious, I reckon. But peace is in my heart: I know it is.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When I finished 'True History of the Kelly Gang,' I realised that Faulkner had not lost his power over me. — Peter Carey 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
I wrote a paper [in school] on [William] Faulkner and no one could tell what the sentences meant. — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
Oh, he's magic. Faulkner has opened passages in my brain. You do things you'd never expect. — Butch Trucks 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 had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them.” — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now. — Ken Burns 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
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 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
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
“And you’re not the standard insecure nymph hunting for Faulkner you’ll never finish, never start; Faulkner that will harden and calcify, if… — Caroline Kepnes 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
I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
In college, I started to get soaked in the materials. Subsequently, I worked with R.W.B. Lewis, Robert Penn Warren, and Cleanth Brooks… — David Milch Copy Share Image
“He is the greatest artist the South has produced.… Indeed, through his many novels and short stories, Faulkner fights out the moral… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and… — Robert Reed 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
“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
“It was something I couldn't put my finger on or define clearly, but a whole mishmash of words and incidents, all rolling… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I believe - what did Faulkner say? "The past is not even past." — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible. — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner. — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality. --Richard Wright to William Faulkner” — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
The last thing we wanted was a copycat. When we saw [Richie Faulkner] play, we thought, "We don't have to tell this… — Rob Halford Copy Share Image
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![“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/i/2e9/mary-karr-3335_faulkner_i-believe-that-when-the-last-ding-dong-o_1832282.jpg)
![“He is the greatest artist the South has produced.… Indeed, through his many novels and short stories, Faulkner fights out the moral problem which was repressed after the nineteenth century [yet] for all his concern with the South, Faulkner was actually seeking out the nature of man. Thus we must…” quote by William Faulkner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cf/william-faulkner-306_art_he-is-the-greatest-artist-the-south-has_2640538.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/i/0ae/tennessee-williams-745_better-now_i-think-that-william-faulkner-and-i-each_1247777.jpg)
![“The last thing we wanted was a copycat. When we saw [Richie Faulkner] play, we thought, "We don't have to tell this guy anything. He's got it."” quote by Rob Halford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f71/rob-halford-3592_copycat_the-last-thing-we-wanted-was-a-copycat-w_1915901.png)