William Faulkner

William Faulkner (1897 - 1962), full name William Cuthbert Faulkner, was a US writer and novelist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949, but he received it one year later, in 1950. He was one of the most celebrated writer of American literature.

Wisdom & Quotes

• The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat clean quite solvent business.

- Intruder in the Dust

• If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.

- quoted in the Paris Review Interviews, 1959

Edward Morgan Forster