Who said that every author "operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet" -- and that it is up to every author individually to define that precise spot and apply it to his or her own writing?
a. William Faulkner
b. Virginia Woolf
c. Flannery O'Connor
d. Henry James
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a. William Faulkner
b. Virginia Woolf
c. Flannery O'Connor
d. Henry James
More trivia...
William Faulkner
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born
September 25, 1897
died
July 06, 1962
gender
male
place of birth
New Albany, Mississippi, The United States
genre
Literature & Fiction, Poetry
influences
James Joyce, William Shakespeare, Nietzsche, T.S. Eliot
about this author
Awarded 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel."
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The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner avg rating 3.91 — 15,308 ratings — published 1929 46 editions |
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As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner avg rating 3.76 — 14,668 ratings — published 1930 41 editions |
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Light in August by William Faulkner avg rating 3.94 — 6,537 ratings — published 1932 34 editions |
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Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner avg rating 3.95 — 4,398 ratings — published 1936 28 editions |
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Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner avg rating 3.91 — 1,603 ratings — published 1942 19 editions |
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Sanctuary by William Faulkner avg rating 3.62 — 1,688 ratings — published 1931 25 editions |
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Collected Stories by William Faulkner avg rating 4.24 — 879 ratings — published 1977 12 editions |
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The Unvanquished by William Faulkner avg rating 3.61 — 927 ratings — published 1938 13 editions |
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The Hamlet by William Faulkner avg rating 3.84 — 794 ratings — published 1940 11 editions |
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A Rose for Emily (The Charles E. Merrill literary casebook series) by William Faulkner avg rating 4.06 — 679 ratings — published 1363 12 editions |
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"Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window."
— William Faulkner
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window."
— William Faulkner
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