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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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 we have a favorite writer, it's always the places where they grew up, lived, worked, and that they recreated on the page that we most want to visit and commune with. Faulkner's Mississippi, Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles, etc. The mind of the reader longs to be somewhere, not just anywhere, and certainly not nowhere.
Most writers have been influenced by Faulkner.
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.
I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail.
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.
Oh, he's magic. Faulkner has opened passages in my brain. You do things you'd never expect.
Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
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