Person/William Faulkner

• William Faulkner

  • Role: American novelist and short-story writer; Nobel Prize in Literature (1949).
  • Bio: Known for Southern Gothic, stream-of-consciousness novels set in his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, including Person/William Faulkner/Book/33/The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying.
  • Quotes
    • Person/William Faulkner/Quote/Approach Language Like Dynamite
      • Person/William Faulkner/Quote/Approach Language Like Dynamite

        • to approach language, words … with a kind of alert respect, as you approach dynamite; even with joy, as you approach women
          

          • --William Faulkner, in a 1933 introduction he wrote for Person/William Faulkner/Book/33/The Sound and the Fury