“עליך לחלום ולנסות לעשות למעלה ממה שיש בכוחך; אל נא תשאף להתעלות על בני זמנך או על קודמיך, אלא נסה להתעלות על עצמך.”

American writer

William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer, known for his novels and short stories. He lived most of his life in Mississippi and wrote much of his work around the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, a version of Lafayette County. He won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. His fiction is closely associated with the American South, and he is widely regarded as a major figure in 20th-century literature.