When asked about the recurring imagery of crucifixion in his fiction, William Faulkner in 1957 replied, "Remember the writer must write out of his background. He must write out of what he knows, and the
Christian legend is part of any Christian's background, especially the background of a country boy, a Southern country boy. My life was passed, my childhood, in a very small Mississippi town ... and that was part of my background. It has nothing to do with how much of it I might believe or disbelieve - it's just there."
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