J.M. Coetzee on Faulkner

"Now I realise for the first time," wrote William Faulkner to a woman friend, looking back from the vantage point of his mid-fifties, "what an amazing gift I had: uneducated in every formal sense, without even very literate, let alone literary, companions, yet to have made the things I made. I don't know where it came from. I don't know why God or gods or whoever it was, selected me to be the vessel." But J.M. Coetzee disagees slightly with Faulkner. Always nice to see what one great writer says about another.