Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Most writers have been influenced by Faulkner.
The thing that most critics miss about Faulkner is that his famous storytelling voice is, in fact, a standard Southern storytelling voice that is typical of the Gulf Coast - Mississippi, Alabama and so on.
I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.
Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.
Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences.
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.