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The South is full of memories and ghosts of the past. For me, it is the most inspiring place to write, from William Faulkner's haunted antebellum home to the banks of the Mississippi to the wind that whispers through the cotton fields.

~Alexandra Adornetto

Topics: Banks Cotton Faulkner Fields Full Ghosts Haunted Home Inspiring Me Memories Mississippi Most Past Place South Through William Wind Write

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It worries me that undergrads and high school students are forced into books they aren't ready for, like Faulkner's, and then they are afraid of putting their toes in the water again.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Afraid Again Books Faulkner Forced High High School High School Students Like Me Putting Ready School Students Then Toes Water Worries

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My father was among the first of his generation to look into writers who've become part of the American lit. canon. When he wrote his master's thesis on William Faulkner in the Forties, he couldn't find anybody on the faculty at Columbia University to oversee it because they didn't read Faulkner.

~Antonya Nelson

Topics: American Among Anybody Because Become Canon Columbia Columbia University Faculty Father Faulkner Find First Forties Generation He His Lit Look Master Oversee Part Read Thesis University William Writers Wrote

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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.

~Barry Hannah

Topics: Along Country Faulkner Find Ghost His Inspiring Life Live Motorcycle My Own Own Same Speed Tool Town Travel Work Write

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Oh, he's magic. Faulkner has opened passages in my brain. You do things you'd never expect.

~Butch Trucks

Topics: Brain Expect Faulkner He Magic Never Never Expect Oh Opened Passages Things You

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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

Topics: Bach Beethoven Faulkner Find Guys Love Makes Out Over Those Tick Want William

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I don't want to turn 50 and say, 'Gosh, I wish I'd lived in that part of the world for a time. I wish I'd read that book by Faulkner.' I want time to delve back into Thoreau and Kafka.

~Charlie Trotter

Topics: Back Book Faulkner Gosh Kafka Lived Part Read Say Time Turn Want Wish World I Wish

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I actually did work and produced two short dissertations, one on Faulkner and one on the film criticism of the stream-of-consciousness novelist Dorothy Richardson.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Actually Criticism Did Dorothy Faulkner Film Film Criticism Novelist Produced Short Two Work

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

~Clifton Fadiman

Topics: Course Creep Faulkner Flesh Interested Making Mind Rather Than Your Mr

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I'm not trying to emulate William Faulkner. I never said I was.

~Dan Brown

Topics: Emulate Faulkner Never Said Trying William

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