There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever through mysterious landscapes from nameless foes; that place is, of course, the world of dreams and of the repressed guilts… — 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
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