Faulkner Quotes

37 Faulkner quotes by 31 unique authors

The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even… — Edward Abbey
So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their… — Donna Tartt
Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really… — Leslie Fiedler
Stories are there to be told, and each story changes with the telling. Time changes them. Logic changes them. Grammar changes them. History changes them.… — Colum McCann
The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of the last century… — Anna Quindlen
Without courage, honor, compassion, pity, love and sacrifice, as William Faulkner pointed out, we know not of love, but lust. We debase our audience. But… — Earl Hamner, Jr.
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 to… — Cheryl Strayed
Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did… — Leslie Fiedler
I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all. — Manuel Puig
We can't slow up because of our love for democracy and our love for America. Someone should tell Faulkner that the vast majority of the people… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth. — Charles James
Intensely moving but never sentimental, Academy Street is a profound meditation on what Faulkner called 'the human heart in conflict with itself'. In Tess Lohan,… — Ron Rash
I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else… — Ernest Hemingway
I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now. — Ken Burns
A year after Hemingway died on the front page, Faulkner went off after a binge, as if dying was nobody's business but his own. — Alfred Kazin
The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee… — Northrop Frye
Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place. — Ron Rash
I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon. — John Larroquette
I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I… — Barry Hannah
I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not. — John Grisham
Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible. — Leslie Fiedler
If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you… — Shelby Foote
Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I… — George R. R. Martin
I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway. — Joyce Carol Oates

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