William Faulkner Quotes


What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not completed to that point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, "It is finished. We made it, and it works.


Citations

Faulkner, William. Faulkner in the University: Class Conferences at the University of Virginia 1957-1958. Edited by Frederick L. Gwynn and Joseph L. Blotner, U of Virginia P, 1959.

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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.