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What, asked reporters, is the value of a college education to a writer? Said Faulkner: "That's too much like trying to decide how important a warm room is to a writer. To some, it might be of great importance as some artists couldn't work in a cold room." Then he added that he did not go to college himself, felt that "people try to read into the true meaning of college lots of things that aren't there. The college is to produce first a humanitarian. No man can write who is not first...
What is the measure of a writer's greatness? "The splendor of failure," said Faulkner. What any writer wants is "not to be better than his friend Hemingway or his friend Dos Passes, but he wants to be greater than Cervantes or Dostoevsky. None of us were quite as good as those. We all failed. There is no degree of failure...
...America's top contemporary novelists? Faulkner's ranking: Thomas Wolfe, Faulkner, Dos Passos, Caldwell and Hemingway in that order. Wolfe is on top because "he ventured more and tried hardest to inscribe the whole history of man's heart on the head...
...Faulkner come to Virginia? "Because I like your country. Virginians are all snobs, and I like snobs. They spend so much time being snobs that they don't meddle with...
With no formal lectures to give and no student manuscripts to read, what would be Author Faulkner's contribution to Virginia students? "The contribution would come out of my experience as a writer, as a craftsman, in contact with a desire of young people to be writers and craftsmen. Out of 100, there may be one who will get something out of the fact that I was in Charlottesville...