Faulkner, you sly fox

On the topic of writing, Faulkner said, “Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.”

¬†”During an interview with The Paris Review in 1956, famed Southern writer, Flannery O” Connor, remarked, “The presence alone of Faulkner in our midst makes a great difference in what the writer can and cannot permit himself to do. Nobody wants his mule and wagon stalled on the same track the Dixie Limited is roaring down.”

¬†William Faulkner”s idea that ””fiction is often the best fact” …. and his “stream of consciousness” style inspired generations of writers..

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