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[…] and your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.

William Faulkner, from Absalom, Absalom! (Vintage, 1936)

7 tips from William Faulkner on how to write fiction

1. Take what you need from other writers
I think the writer, as I’ve said before, is completely amoral. He takes whatever he needs, wherever he needs, and he does that openly and honestly because he himself hopes that what he does will be good enough so that after him people will take from him, and they are welcome to take from him, as he feels that he would be welcome by the best of his predecessors to take what they had done.
2. Don’t worry about style
I think the story compels its own style to a great extent, that the writer don’t need to bother too much about style. If he’s bothering about style, then he’s going to write precious emptiness–not necessarily nonsense…it’ll be quite beautiful and quite pleasing to the ear, but there won’t be much content in it.
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theparisreview:
“When Faulkner traveled abroad as an ambassador for U.S. literature, The State Department circulated a memo called “Guidelines for Handling Mr. William Faulkner on His Trips Abroad,” which as designed to help agents curb Faulkner’s...

theparisreview:

When Faulkner traveled abroad as an ambassador for U.S. literature, The State Department circulated a memo called “Guidelines for Handling Mr. William Faulkner on His Trips Abroad,” which as designed to help agents curb Faulkner’s drinking.

It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.

William Faulkner

(from As I Lay Dying. In 1986 the book was banned after a mother read the novel, initially given to her child for a school assignment, and determined that it was “secular humanism.” She contacted the school body soon after demanding that “protection from Faulkner’s dangerous novel” be required for all students. It was banned one month later.)

Banned Books Week

(via thatlitsite)

Don’t be a writer. Be writing.

William Faulkner (via blotsandplots)

Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar…

William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)

theparisreview:
“ Drawing by Espinouze for William Faulkner’s “These Thirteen.” ”

theparisreview:

Drawing by Espinouze for William Faulkner’s “These Thirteen.”

readmorebooks.wordpress.com Songs Inspired by Books: A Playlist

vintageanchor:

“Golden Slumbers” by The Beatles, inspired by the poem “Golden Slumbers Kiss Your Eyes” by Thomas Dekker

“Clocks” by Coldplay, inspired by William Tell by Friedrich Schiller

“Rain King” by Counting Crows, inspired by Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow

“Yeat’s Grave” by The Cranberries, inspired by the poetry of William Butler Yeats

“Guinnevere” by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, inspired by La Morte d’Arthur

“Romeo and Juliet” by Dire Straits

“All Along the Watchtower” by Bob Dylan, inspired by Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

“Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts” by Bob Dylan, inspired by The Hamlet by William Faulkner

“Tangled Up in Blue” by Bob Dylan, inspired by Dante’s Inferno

“Mercy Street” by Peter Gabriel, inspired by 45 Mercy Street by Anne Sexton

“White Rabbit” by Jefferson Airplane, inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

“Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” by Elton John, inspired by The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

“Battle of Evermore,” “Ramble On” and “Misty Mountain Hop” by Led Zeppelin, inspired by The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

“Don’t Stand So Close to Me” by The Police, inspired by Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

“A Whiter Shade of Pale” by Procul Harem, inspired by The Canterbury Tales

“Sympathy for the Devil” by The Rolling Stones, inspired by The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

“Kid Charlemagne” by Steely Dan, inspired by The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

“Sister Moon” by Sting, inspired by Sonnet XXXV by William Shakespeare

“My Ride’s Here” by Warren Zevon, inspired by the poem “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson

I’d like to add Kate Bush’s Cloudbusting (A Book of Dreams), Get Out of My House (The Shining) & Flower of the Mountain (Ulysses). How about you?