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• The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck.… — Edward Abbey
• So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who… — Donna Tartt
• Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with… — Leslie Fiedler
• Stories are there to be told, and each story changes with the telling. Time changes them. Logic changes them. Grammar… — Colum McCann
• The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American… — Anna Quindlen
• Without courage, honor, compassion, pity, love and sacrifice, as William Faulkner pointed out, we know not of love, but lust.… — Earl Hamner, Jr.
• You have to surrender to your mediocrity, and just write. Because it's hard, really hard, to write even a crappy… — Cheryl Strayed
• Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a… — 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… — 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… — Ron Rash

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