William Faulkner
Birthday:
25 September 1897, New Albany, Mississippi, USA
Birth Name:
William Cuthbert Falkner
Height:
166 cm
William Faulkner, one of the 20th century's most gifted novelists, wrote for the movies in part because he could not make enough money from his novels and short stories to support his growing number of dependants. The author of such acclaimed novels as "The Sound and the Fury" and "Absalom, Absalom!", Faulkner received offi...
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William Faulkner, one of the 20th century's most gifted novelists, wrote for the movies in part because he could not make enough money from his novels and short stories to support his growing number of dependants. The author of such acclaimed novels as "The Sound and the Fury" and "Absalom, Absalom!", Faulkner received official screen credits for just six theatrical releases, five of which were with director Howard Hawks. Faulkner received the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1949 and he received two Pulitzer Prizes, for "A Fable" in '1955 and "The Reivers", which was published shortly before he died in 1962. Show less «
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all . . . Always dream an...Show more »
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all . . . Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. Show less «
I'm just a farmer who likes to tell stories.
I'm just a farmer who likes to tell stories.
Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
It's not Hollywood's fault. The writer is not accustomed to money. It goes to his head and destroys him.
It's not Hollywood's fault. The writer is not accustomed to money. It goes to his head and destroys him.
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