A Quote by Henry Paulson

I'd have liked to have been another Faulkner, of course.

Henry Paulson

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Henry Paulson
American - Public Servant
Born: March 28, 1946

I hated Hemingway. I liked Faulkner but he was a bore.

Truman Capote

Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner.

Tom T. Hall

Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences.

Italo Calvino

In college, I started to get soaked in the materials. Subsequently, I worked with R.W.B. Lewis, Robert Penn Warren, and Cleanth Brooks on a history of American literature - I did that for seven or eight years. In the course of that work, my interest in Faulkner deepened and has been sustained ever since.

David Milch

I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. Faulkner and Frost were the very peaks of American poetry and fiction in the 20th century.

Jay Parini

Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an experimental novel.

Joyce Carol Oates

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

Clifton Fadiman

When I was young, I was a passionate reader of Sartre. I've read the American novelists, in particular the lost generation - Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dos Passos - especially Faulkner. Of the authors I read when I was young, he is one of the few who still means a lot to me.

Mario Vargas Llosa

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

There may have been somewhere, as a few eighteenth-century philosophers dreamed, a group of peaceful men who got together one evening after work and drew up a Social Contract to form the state. But nobody has been able to find an actual record of it. Practically all the governments whose origins are historically established were the result of conquest-of one tribe by another, one city by another, one people by another. Of course there have been constitutional conventions, but they merely changed the working rules of governments already in being.

Henry Hazlitt

Most writers have been influenced by Faulkner.

Louise Erdrich

I would’ve liked to have been Poussin, if I’d had a choice, in another time.

Cy Twombly

I would've liked to have been Poussin, if I'd had a choice, in another time.

Cy Twombly

I'm really influenced by Southern novelists, not many movie people. More like John Faulkner, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck, and people like that.