Author and Nobel Prize winner, William Faulkner in his inspirational speech, “Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature 1950,” addresses the achievement of obtaining the award as well as providing advice to future writers about how their writing should be executed. He develops his message by explaining the “universal truths” in writing and how they should be incorporated in every single piece of writing; Faulkner explains that those truths are “love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice,” which will help future writers express their topics in an eloquent way. Further, he addresses his concern of literature from the heart and soul slowly dying out and how that specific kind of literature should be brought back to help