He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.'(on Ernest Hemingway.
Weitere Zitate von William Faulkner
Zum Autor"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's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window."
"Too much happens ... Man performs engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything."
"Wanton stars galloped neighing like unicorns in blue meadows."
"When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar."
"The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on."
"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good."