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

- Clifton Fadiman

I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!

- Candy Crowley

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

- Gregory Benford

I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.

- Joyce Carol Oates

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.

- Ken Burns

Most writers have been influenced by Faulkner.

- Louise Erdrich

Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place.

- Ron Rash

If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing.

- Shelby Foote

Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner.

- Tom T. Hall