William Faulkner
William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulknerwas an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays, and screenplays. He is primarily known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 September 1897
CityNew Albany, MS
hundred miles
Why that's a hundred miles away. That's a long way to go just to eat.
absorb apprentice carpenter good studies throw works
Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.
men voice needs
The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.
thank-you thanksgiving gratitude
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
spite incapable
She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.
marriage long rooms
Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.
materials i-can ifs
I do not rewrite unless I am absolutely sure that I can express the material better if I do rewrite it.
reason knows
The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.