A Quote by Tom T. Hall

Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner.

Tom T. Hall

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Almost Faulkner Got Never Oriental

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Tom T. Hall
American - Musician
Born: May 25, 1936

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

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

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.

Billy Bob Thornton

I never got too specialized but did like the Southern Gothic writers like William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor.

Mat Kearney

Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a difficult concept to grasp. Hemingway didn't know he was Ernest Hemingway when he was a young man. Faulkner didn't know he was William Faulkner. But they had to take the first step. They had to call themselves writers. That is the first revolutionary act a writer has to make. It takes courage. But it's necessary

Pat Conroy

I'm not trying to emulate William Faulkner. I never said I was.

Dan Brown

Oh, he's magic. Faulkner has opened passages in my brain. You do things you'd never expect.

Butch Trucks

The last thing we wanted was a copycat. When we saw [Richie Faulkner] play, we thought, "We don't have to tell this guy anything. He's got it."

Rob Halford

I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.

Karen Joy Fowler

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

Truman Capote

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

Henry Paulson

Most writers have been influenced by Faulkner.

Louise Erdrich

I'm a very big Faulkner fan 'cause I'm a Southerner.

Gregory Benford

The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.

Edward Abbey

Faulkner wrote for film, and his ear is just impeccable.

David Milch

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