Literature · Reflection
WILLIAM FAULKNER ~ I’M A FAILED POET
1 May 2015
“I’m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can’t and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing that, only then does he take up novel writing.”
—William Faulkner
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