Faulkner South Quotes

#1. David, when it happens ... when it happens, David, will you save me?

Katherine Applegate

#2. Ah, Mr Compson said, Years ago we in the South made our women into ladies. Then the War came and made the ladies into ghosts. So what else can we do, being gentlemen, but listen to them being ghosts?

William Faulkner

#3. So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter.

Donna Tartt

#4. Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.

William Faulkner

#5. Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.

William Faulkner

#6. Do you know," he said, "it's twenty years since you wrote Notes from a Small Island?" (This was my first book about Britain. It did awfully well there.) "Twenty years?" I replied, amazed at how much past one can accumulate without any effort at all.

Bill Bryson

#7. All at once, I couldn't figure out why I was methodically tossing a spherical object through a toroidal object. It seemed like the stupidest thing I could possibly be doing.

John Green

#8. Mississippi begins in the lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee, hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico.

William Faulkner

#9. I can't save you like that, Ty.

Lucy Christopher

#10. When she spoke even now, after forty years, among the slurred consonants and the flat vowels of the land where her life had been cast, New England talked as plainly as it did in the speech of her kin who had never left New Hampshire

William Faulkner

#11. Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent.

Amanda Ripley

#12. New Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said that he is open to letting transgender people serve in the military. He said there's no reason to prevent people from being generals just because of their privates.

Jimmy Fallon

#13. The South is full of memories and ghosts of the past. For me, it is the most inspiring place to write, from William Faulkner's haunted antebellum home to the banks of the Mississippi to the wind that whispers through the cotton fields.

Alexandra Adornetto

#14. If you want to write, you write. Talent is simply not enough.

Jane Yolen

#15. The ice cream is worth the brain freeze

Melissa Brayden