#faulkner

But you cant be alive forever, and you always wear out life long before you have exhausted the possibilities of living. And all that must be somewhere; all that could not have been invented and created just to be thrown away. And the earth is shallow; there is not a great deal of it before you come to the rock. And the earth dont want to just keep things, hoard them; it wants to use them again. ↗

— William Faulkner

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

— Ken Burns

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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 did it better. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

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Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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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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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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Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them. ↗

— Kelli Jae Baeli

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Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ↗

— William Faulkner

#inspirational #motivational #inspirational