It's too narrow. I just try to be a decent writer. And yet almost all your novels are set in a small area, Bayonne Parish. . . Faulkner wrote about Mississippi, Homer about Greece, Balzac about Paris, Shakespeare about a kind of England. But that doesn't mean they're not universal.
People write about what they know best, and readers respond to that wherever they happen to live.
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman has been translated into several languages, and readers of all races have written to me and said they felt that the old lady was somebody they recognized. But Faulkner himself was influenced by Sherwood Anderson, whom he knew, and by James Joyce's writings about Dublin. So just as Faulkner inherited from them, I inherited from Faulkner. It's a continuing process. I certainly feel close to Faulkner.