Country Quote by Barry Hannah

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

— Ron Rash

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

When we have a favorite writer, it's always the places where they grew up, lived, worked, and that they recreated on the page that…

— Walter Kirn

Most writers have been influenced by Faulkner.

— Louise Erdrich

“If you're going to be a narcissistic schmuck, kid, don't bother studying Faulkner. Go straight to Brett Easton Ellis. He's the role model you…

— Arinn Dembo

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

You have to surrender to your mediocrity, and just write. Because it's hard, really hard, to write even a crappy book. But it's better…

— Cheryl Strayed

I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail. I have no ghost writers.

— David Wilkerson

The first five years as a writer, I didn't know how to write at all. I couldn't write my way out of a white…

— Richard Meltzer

I am not really a writer. I am just someone who is haunted, and I will write the hauntings down.

— Janet Frame