Famous quotes containing the words faulkner and/or reads:
“All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.”
—William Faulkner (1897–1962)
“The thinker as reader reads what has been written.
He wears the words he reads to look upon
Within his being....”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)