a drive out to ROWAN OAK with the man, a look around, & a look in on his garden.
photograph by Marsha Cannon here
BILL'S take on things...
"the Past is never Dead.
it's not even Past." William Faulkner
BILL'S take on things...
"The reason I don't like interviews is that I seem to react violently to
personal questions. If the questions are about the work, I try to answer
them. When they are about me, I may answer or I may not, but even if I
do, if the same question is asked tomorrow, the answer may be different." WCF
(this is the 2nd of 5
"By temperament I'm a vagabond and a tramp. I don't want money badly
enough to work for it. In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much
work in the world. One of the saddest things is that the only thing a
man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work." WCF
when it gets down to writing
it was done on an Underwood Universal Portable typewriter by a window at Rowan Oak.
"Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in
technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no
shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach
yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good
artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has
supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants
to beat him." William Faulkner,from The Paris Review 1956
"How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.” William Faulkner
