#faulkner

Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing. ↗

— William Faulkner

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The displacement of water is equal to the something of something. ↗

— William Faulkner

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Civilization begins with distillation ↗

— William Faulkner

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Yes. Because they were human men. They were trying to write down the heart's truth out of the heart's driving complexity, for all the complex and troubled hearts which would beat after them. ↗

— William Faulkner "The Bear"

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

— Candy Crowley

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A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

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I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not. ↗

— John Grisham

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Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

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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

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

— Manuel Puig

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