Quotes of: Faulkner Keyword

Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner.

Tom T. Hall

Sleeping with a woman is easy. Loving her is an entirely different thing.

A Faulkner Possession

What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on the last wall of the universe.

Lion in the Garden: Interviews with William Faulkner, 1926-1962

Story, as I understood it by reading Faulkner, Hardy, Cather, and Hemingway, was a powerful and clarifying human invention. The language alone, as I discovered it in Gerard Manley Hopkins and Faulkner, was exquisitely beautiful, also weirdly and myst...

About This Life

Shavonne Wright: What the hell are you talking about girl? Kaye Faulkner: Didn't even think about it did you? Shavonne Wright: Gilligan's Island? Kaye Faulkner: It's what called a male pornographic fantasy. Shavonne Wright: [laughs] Oh my haha Kaye F...

Dazed and Confused

Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a difficult concept to grasp. Hemingway didn't know he was Ernest Hemingway when he was a young man. Faulkner didn't know he was Wi...

My Losing Season: A Memoir

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

Manuel Puig

I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.

John Larroquette

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.

Ken Burns

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

Clifton Fadiman

Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences.

Italo Calvino

Kaye Faulkner: Let's go smoke that joint Jodi: Is he in for a surprise

Dazed and Confused

Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an experimental novel.

Joyce Carol Oates

I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!

Candy Crowley

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

Joyce Carol Oates

Write drunk (on emotion); edit sober (on rationality and intention). Faulkner, reimagined by me.

Love

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

Ron Rash

Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.

Leslie Fiedler

Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.

Robert Morgan

Still here, Faulkner?" Luke sneered. "Still doing that terrible impression of Draco Malfoy?" I asked.

The Beginning of Everything

Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.

Leslie Fiedler