Faulkner Quote by Colum McCann

Stories are there to be told, and each story changes with the telling. Time changes them. Logic changes them. Grammar changes them. History changes…

— Colum McCann

The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself

— William Faulkner

the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth…

— William Faulkner

“My father was a stand–up man who, unfortunately, did not have anything to stand up for. An eternal conflict burned in his heart, a…

— Henry Martin

“[T]he young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good…

— William Faulkner

I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.

— Carson McCullers

I don't want to turn 50 and say, 'Gosh, I wish I'd lived in that part of the world for a time. I wish…

— Charlie Trotter

“How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home. —William Faulkner”

— Nic Pizzolatto

I'd have liked to have been another Faulkner, of course.

— Henry Paulson

Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner.

— Tom T. Hall

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

“I knew Faulkner very well. He was a great friend of mine. Well, as much as you could be a friend of his, unless…

— Truman Capote