Books Quote by Mario Vargas Llosa

Most writers have been influenced by Faulkner.

— Louise Erdrich

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

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

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

Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place.

— Ron Rash

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

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

— Richard Wright

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

— Rick Bragg

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

— Samuel Butler

You have to surrender to your mediocrity, and just write. Because it's hard, really hard, to write even a crappy book. But it's better…

— Cheryl Strayed

There's so many good books, but I'm always like, "I'm sorry, I have five more Faulkners to read, I can't be bothered." Most of…

— Lou Doillon