Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.
Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place.
I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.
When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.
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.
I think that being read to every night is the reason why I was plowing through volume after volume of 'Nancy Drew' books all by myself by the time I reached the first grade. I loved stories. I loved the escape. I had a vivid imagination.
Most writers have been influenced by Faulkner.
One of my favorite things I read was John Steinbeck's journals while he was writing 'East of Eden,' which was so cool.
My father went to work by train every day. It was half an hour's journey each way, and he would read a paperback in four journeys. After supper, we all sat down to read - it was long before TV, remember!
I was the person who stayed awake reading by the nightlight until the scary shadows made me crazy.