Criticism Quote by Claire Messud

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

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

I've published many biographies over the years and enjoyed working with writers on their research, discussing it, thinking about it and how it revealed…

— Victoria Wilson

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

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

— Richard Wright

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

I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There…

— Haruki Murakami

Most writers have been influenced by Faulkner.

— Louise Erdrich

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…

— John Grisham

I write heavily under the influence of James Taylor.

— Carole King

I stopped reading William Faulkner because it's hard work. I want to read a good writer, but I also want to read something where…

— John Grisham

I was told that the fact that I had nothing but good things to say about Judith Regan distinguished me. I enjoyed writing for…

— Mick Foley