#ExtraAwesome

Melvin Beederman - Dead Guy Interviews - William Faulkner

• Greg: Eating! My favorite subject. Let's talk ice cream.
• William: Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.
• Greg: Okay, back to writing. How about a tip for writers, you Nobel Prize winner you.
• William: Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.
• Greg: What if you don't have a window?
• William: Who doesn't have a window?
• Greg: Homeless people. But let's move on. You've had your disputes with Earnest Hemingway over style. Any thoughts?
• William: He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to a dictionary.