Quotes About Faulkner

I am the chosen of the Lord, for who He loveth, so doeth He chastiseth. But I be durn if He dont take some curious ways to show it, seems like.

Wanton stars galloped neighing like unicorns in blue meadows.

Mississippi begins in the lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee, hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico.

The river itself is not a hundred yards across, and pa and Vernon and Vardaman and Dewey Dell are the only things in sight not of that single monotony of desolation leaning with that terrific quality a little from right to left, as though we had reached the place where the motion of the wasted world accelerates just before the final precipice.

Yet the motion of the saw has not faltered, as though it and the arm functioned in a tranquil conviction that rain was an illusion of the mind.

The] Christ story is one of the best stories that man has invented. . . . Faulkner in the University, 117

I am the chosen of the Lord, for who He loveth, so doeth He chastiseth. But I be durn if He dont take some curious ways to show it, seems like. But

And so if Cash nails the box up, she is not a rabbit.

We go on, with a motion so soporific, so dreamlike as to be uninferant of progress, as though time and not space were decreasing between us and it.

Louis said, "There ought to be a comic book about geeks." Dr. McNaughton said, "There are books about geeks." He said, "There are?" Dr. McNaughton said, "I'll read you some Faulkner sometime. I'll read you some Eudora Welty, some Flannery O'Connor. Geeks, midgets, anything your heart desires. Better than comic books." Louis looked at his father. He said, "You'll read to me? Really?

Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner.

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

Faulkner didn't put those

I was an undergrad math major and a grad student in computer science. I'm hugely introverted, not atypical of math majors.

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

Gonzo journalism… is a style of "reporting" based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism—and the best journalists have always known this.

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

No, not just the visual. There's the emotional part too. There's that line Faulkner said, about how you don't love because. You love despite.

Faulkner's Fried Food and Funeral Parlour. You die – we fry.