I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading. — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along. — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
“Our great novelists, though experts on indignity and assault, on loneliness and terror, tend to avoid treating the passionate encounter of a… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis. — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
“Our great novelists, though experts on indignity and assault, on loneliness and terror, tend to avoid treating the passionate encounter of a man and… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along. — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist. — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath. — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
