[RJS1950]

Faulkner was my first thought as well, although with Hemingway saying this the obvious thought is “It takes one to know one”.

Faulkner was an overrated, drunken hack who wrote to buy is next stock and store of booze. Little better than the same genre of “brilliant” reporters of his era.

[Borges]

What Faulkner have you read? ‘Absalom, Absalom’ is the great American prose tragedy.

[fr_freak]

Faulkner was an overrated, drunken hack who wrote to buy is next stock and store of booze.

Have to disagree with you there. While I find Faulkner's plots often to be simple and boring, he has some of the most well-written prose and dialogue of any author, ever.