William Faulkner Quotes


People everywhere are about the same, but ... it did seem that in a small town, where evil is harder to accomplish, where opportunities for privacy are scarcer, that people can invent more of it in other people's names. Because that was all it required: that idea, that single idle word blown from mind to mind.


Citations

Faulkner, William. Absalom, Absalom!. Random House, 1936.

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William Faulkner
William Faulkner
  • Born: September 25, 1897
  • Died: July 6, 1962
  • Nationality: American
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William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, screenplays, poetry, essays, and a play. He is primarily known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life.