Faulkner Quotes

37 quotes by 31 authors

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
Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an… — Joyce Carol Oates
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I donâ€™t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right.… — Ernest Hemingway
Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan. — Ray Bradbury
Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a… — Pat Conroy
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? — Ernest Hemingway
I won't talk to you about my family and you won't talk to me about yours. Family talk is either boring or self-pitying. Or it's… — Chaim Potok
I'm not going to lay down in words the lure of this place. Every great writer in the land, from Faulkner to Twain to Rice… — Chris Rose
Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plunging into the narrative before the reader has a clue… — John Updike
Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep. — Clifton Fadiman
Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner. — Tom T. Hall
A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as… — E L Doctorow
Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same… — Robert Morgan

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