Apples Quote by John Grisham

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

“she wanted to know what American writers I liked. "Hawthorne, Henry James, Emily Dickinson…" "No, living." Ah, well, hmm, let's see: how difficult, the…

— Truman Capote

Most writers have been influenced by Faulkner.

— Louise Erdrich

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

— Carson McCullers

William Faulkner was the master of what one must do to be serious. But I don't understand why people haven't moved forward from that,…

— Douglas A. Martin

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

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

— Richard Wright

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 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

John Steinbeck is one of the most under-discussed and under-written-about of all American writers. He is way up there and should stand on a…

— Harry Belafonte

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

— Manuel Puig

“He is the greatest artist the South has produced.… Indeed, through his many novels and short stories, Faulkner fights out the moral problem which…

— William Faulkner