“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
(1897 – 1962)
(1897 – 1962)
Curious facts
about:
Faulkner
declined a dinner invitation from First lady Jacqueline Kennedy, saying, "That’s a long way to go just to eat.”
Faulkner never graduated from high
school or earned a college degree, yet he won the Nobel Prize for Literature,
two Pulitzers prizes and the National Book Award, twice.
He supported himself as a postmaster
at the University of Mississippi, but was fired for reading on the job.