william faulkner

     

William Faulkner (born William Cuthbert Falkner), (September 25, 1897–July 6, 1962) was an American author. He is regared as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, and was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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  • Sherwood Anderson told him, write about what "you know... that little patch... in Mississippi where you started from"
  • His great-granddad wrote the best-seller "White Rose of Memphis", a city 40 miles north of the county in which he was raised
  • Nobel Prize-winning Mississippian seen here
  • This Mississippian's first novel, "Soldier's Pay", was recommended to a publisher by Sherwood Anderson
  • He called the original version of "Sartoris", his 1929 novel, "Flags in the Dust"
  • In the late 1920s he penned what many consider his greatest novel, "The Sound and the Fury"
  • Oxford, Miss. created a furor when it cut down a magnolia tree to erect a statue of this hometown author
  • His book "Go Down, Moses" includes the immortal story "The Bear"
  • He ventured from Oxford to Hollywood to write for the movies, including "The Big Sleep"
  • "A Rose For Emily" is a well-known short story by this author of "The Sound And The Fury"
  • His third published novel, "Sartoris", was the first he set in Yoknapatawpha County
  • This author's "The Bear" is one of many stories dealing with the McCaslins of Yoknapatawpha County
  • For 37 years Ole Miss has held an annual conference on this writer & Yoknapatawpha
  • A degenerate bootlegger named Popeye abducts college coed Temple Drake in his 1931 novel "Sanctuary"
  • This novelist who wrote screenplays for Howard Hawks has a last name that means "one who works with falcons"
  • He was studying intermittently at the Univ. of Miss. when he wrote the 1-act play "Marionettes" in 1920
  • Temple Drake is a college student in this Southerner's controversial 1931 novel "Sanctuary"
  • There were requiems for this author of "Requiem for a Nun" after he died July 6
  • "Twilight" was the original title of his "The Sound and the Fury"
  • This writer's great-grandfather, the inspiration for his John Sartoris, wrote "The White Rose Of Memphis"
  • Books titled "The Town" are part of trilogies by Conrad Richter & by this Mississippian
  • Towrard the end of World War I, this Mississippi-born author joined the Royal Air Force in Canada
  • This Mississippi author served as a dialogue consultant on "The Southerner", one of Jean's best American films
  • "Absalom, Absalom!"
  • He used "Dark House" as the working title for both "Absalom, Absalom!" & "Light in August"
  • "The Reivers"
  • Sherwood Anderson helped this Mississippian find a publisher for "Soldier's Pay", his first novel
  • Stores around the town square of Oxford, Mississippi closed during his funeral at St. Peter's Cemetery
  • Ike McCaslin,Percy Grimm,Benjy Compson
  • Me laugh reading about boy going from Mississippi to Memphis in "The Reivers" by him--you hear me? Me say "Mississippi"
  • Absolutely, absolutely!, his "Absalom, Absalom!" should be on the list
  • This Mississippi-born novelist published his 2nd & last book of poems, "A Green Bough", in 1933
  • In his 1938 work "The Unvanquished", the Sartoris family copes with the Civil War
  • "A Fable" was a winner for this author in 1955
  • Ike Snopes falls in love with a cow in this novelist's Snopes Trilogy
  • Sherwood Anderson helped this Mississippi author publish his first novel, "Soldiers' Pay"
  • Receiving the Nobel Prize in 1950, this Southern author said, "I decline to accept the end of man"
  • His story "The Bear" recounts an annual hunting expedition in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi
  • Valerie Bettis' ballet "As I Lay Dying" brought to life a novel by this southerner
  • His trilogy that began with "The Hamlet" & ended with "The Mansion" was written over a 30-year period
  • 2-time Pulitzer winner, Mississippian, died in 1962
  • Aug. 4, 1987:A stamp honoring this author is first sold at the Oxford, Miss. post office where he once worked

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  • "If a story is in you, it has to come out." William Faulkner
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  • An artist is a creature driven by demons.--William Faulkner
  • "Read, read, read."--William Faulkner
  • RT @roxanamjones: The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it. - William Faulkner #quote via @alph…
  • Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders - William Faulkner
  • RT @biobio: “Se puede confiar en las malas personas, no cambian jamás”. (William Faulkner - Escritor estadounidense)
  • RT @SAE_legacy: 'You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.' Happy Belated Bday - Brother William …
  • Such a ubiquitous collection of lines in August Nights- Sir William Faulkner (Nober prize Lit. 1930) — reading William Faulkner
  • RT @VersosDeOro: "Quizás tuvieron razón en colocar el amor en los libros..." -William Faulkner
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  • “Se puede confiar en las malas personas, no cambian jamás”. (William Faulkner - Escritor estadounidense)
  • The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it. - William Faulkner #quote
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  • Inteligencia es la capacidad de aceptar el entorno. William Faulkner.
  • My mother is a fish. ― William Faulkner
  • "If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us."William Faulkner
  • RT @MotSuccess: "Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain." -- William Faulkner
  • A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.~William Faulkner
  • "Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain." -- William Faulkner
  • I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it. -William Faulkner
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  • Tylko, że przyzwoitość to idiotyczne słowo, jeśli chodzi o Ciebie i o mnie. — William Faulkner
  • RT @penguinrandom: “Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.”― William Faulkner, b. 9/25/1897
  • "A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid. " William Faulkner
  • RT @malpensante: "La victoria es una ilusión de filósofos y de tontos", William Faulkner.
  • "Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." -- William Faulkner, Author
  • RT @brainpicker: Faulkner on writing, the human dilemma, and why we create art – a rare 1958 audience Q&A
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  • RT @colosioriojas: "...Si la gente en todo el mundo hiciera esto, cambiaría el planeta." -William Faulkner
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  • RT @EsMemorable: "La sabiduría suprema es tener sueños bastante grandes, para no perderlos de vista mientras se persiguen" William Faulkner…
  • RT @EsMemorable: "Los que pueden actúan y los que no pueden y sufren por ello, escriben" William Faulkner (D) Nobel de Literatura 1949 http…
  • RT @EsMemorable: "Si me dan a elegir entre la tristeza y la soledad, me quedo con la tristeza" William Faulkner, escritor estadounidense, N…
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  • "Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." -- William Faulkner, Author
  • "@VersosDeOro: "Quizás tuvieron razón en colocar el amor en los libros..." -William Faulkner
  • RT @iTributos: “Quizás tuvieron razón en colocar el amor en los libros. Quizás no podía existir en ningún otro lugar.” — William Faulkner
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  • Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. -William Faulkner
  • We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.-William Faulkner