Faulkner Quote by Arinn Dembo

Faulkner is a really important figure in southern literature. I wrestle with him and his legacy every time I sit down and write a…

— Jesmyn Ward

Faulkner's characters, too, were uneducated. They were deprived, but they were allowed to have very rich inner lives. I want to advocate for that,…

— Jesmyn Ward

Most writers have been influenced by Faulkner.

— Louise Erdrich

“As with any great literature, there are probably as many ways to read William Faulkner’s writing as there are readers. There are hundreds of…

— William Faulkner

In college, I started to get soaked in the materials. Subsequently, I worked with R.W.B. Lewis, Robert Penn Warren, and Cleanth Brooks on a…

— David Milch

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

— Clifton Fadiman

“I guess Faulkner never would have written anything like this, huh? Oh, well.”

— Stephen King

“And you’re not the standard insecure nymph hunting for Faulkner you’ll never finish, never start; Faulkner that will harden and calcify, if books could…

— Caroline Kepnes

“Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality. --Richard Wright to William Faulkner”

— Richard Wright

I wrote a paper [in school] on [William] Faulkner and no one could tell what the sentences meant.

— Elizabeth Crook

“I’d be happy to give special treatment to a dedicated school teacher, or even someone like William Faulkner if he was still alive, because…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

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