Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
Clifton FadimanThere are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
Clifton FadimanOne measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
Clifton FadimanSeriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the final blowup of what was once a remarkable, if minor, talentโฆ this is a penny dreadful tricked up in fancy language and given a specious depth by the expert manipulation of a series of eccentric technical tricks. The characters have no magnitude and no meaning because they have no more reality than a mince-pie nightmare.
Clifton Fadiman