Talking Like William Faulkner

“I think that nobody can say, ‘I’m going to use stream-of-consciousness as my method for writing.’ … It’s much better to show the character in familiar terms of – of action, of speech, but sometimes that’s not sufficient. Then you have to use another tool, just as at times the carpenter realizes that his familiar tool is not quite enough to do what he wants to do, so he’s got to stop and make something, make a tool …” (From an audio archive of Faulkner lectures at U.Va.)