August Quote by Leslie Fiedler Download Open image “Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.” — Leslie Fiedler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare August Life Light Living room Sat
'As I Lay Dying,' I reread that often. That's the first work of Faulkner's that I read that so amazed me and that I… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“That was what I did at night. I read all the stuff that you're supposed to read in college but never do, or if… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Faulkner was the first novelist I read with pen and paper in hand because his technique stunned me. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
We read everything - from the Unabomber to Camille Paglia to Martin Luther King Jr. - and I really fell in love with the… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
I loved reading. I was one of those kids who was supposed to go to bed but had a torch under the duvet. That… — Jo Swinson Copy Share Image
I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon. — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place. — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name -… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to. — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis. — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
“Our great novelists, though experts on indignity and assault, on loneliness and terror, tend to avoid treating the passionate encounter of a man and… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along. — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist. — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath. — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
On the McLaughlin Report, August 26, 1990: 'There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the middle East, the… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71. — Robert Quine Copy Share Image
I had the advantage, that I know Swedish. So I had the Swedish book and I had a lot of English translations, and German… — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I can see that I imagine all kinds of rejection that never happens. I can see that I beg and plead for love that… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
August depresses me a little. I don't even feel like eating. And when I don't eat, that's a sure sign of stagnation. — Willard Scott Copy Share Image
It [August 10th 1792] was the bloodiest day of the Revolution so far, but also one of the most decisive. — William Doyle Copy Share Image
How sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in given light. The children put their toys to grass All the warm wakeful August… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I studied acting in NYU's graduate program, in which we covered everything from Ibsen and Chekov to August Wilson and David Mamet. — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
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