Unidentified participant: Sir, when you are reading for your own pleasure, which authors do you consistently return to?
William Faulkner: The ones I came to love when I was eighteen, nineteen, twenty years old. Moby-Dick, the Old Testament, Shakespeare, a lot of Conrad, Dickens. I read Don Quixote every year.
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Reblogged this on Margaret Langstaff and commented:
And there you have it. The great books never tire, wear out or bore one. Their lessons and horizons are infinite.
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