[
US
/ˈfɔknɝ/
]
NOUN
- United States novelist (originally Falkner) who wrote about people in the southern United States (1897-1962)
How To Use Faulkner In A Sentence
- The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true. William Faulkner
- Faulkner wore jeans faded at the knees, a broad hat, and photochromic sunglasses.
- Saul Bellow is the greatest Jewish American writer after Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner died.
- Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else. William Faulkner
- I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it. William Faulkner
- To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow. William Faulkner
- He excoriates the McSweeney's crowd and "the ridiculous dithering of John Barth ... [and] the reductive cardboard constructions of Donald Barthelme," and would excise from the modern canon "nearly all of Gaddis, Pynchon, DeLillo," and — while he's at it — "the diarrheic flow of words that is Ulysses ... the incomprehensible ramblings of late Faulkner and the sterile inventions of late Nabokov. New & Noteworthy
- I thought we were playing hardball,’ Ruth drawls and Faulkner frowns, appearing to be gravely insulted.
- Well, what Spenser did with practically every Western myth, epic, and writer before him makes Faulkner look like a pre-schooler using slight of hand to hide a coin), his passion, his facility with language (that is, if you ignore the occasional "puissance"), his psychological insight. Telecommuter Talk
- Dupont and teammate Justin Faulkner were named OUA all-stars after placing in the top ten at the championships.