William Faulkner (1897-1962) 的學習

廖志峰：

 "這次的分享課倒是意外發現了帕穆克和馬奎斯都私淑福克納，那麼福克納的私淑對象又是誰？" 

In an interview with The Paris Review in 1956, Faulkner remarked:

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.

參考：
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Faulkner
內有 William Faulkner 不管經理人與出版商，埋頭自己的創作事業，也要求前者對其作品不要修改、添加標點符號：

 In describing the writing process for this work, Faulkner would later say, "One day I seemed to shut the door between me and all publisher's addresses and book lists. I said to myself, 'Now I can write.'"^[16] After its completion, Faulkner this time insisted that Ben Wasson not do any editing or add any punctuation for clarity.^[13]