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> [The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-fiedler/the-novel-doesn-t-come-into-existence-until-certain-methods-of/)

[Leslie Fiedler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-fiedler/)

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## More by Leslie Fiedler

> [I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-fiedler/i-have-i-admit-a-low-tolerance-for-detached-chronicling-and-cool/)

[Leslie Fiedler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-fiedler/)

> [“Our great novelists, though experts on indignity and assault, on loneliness and terror, tend to avoid treating the passionate encounter of a man and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-fiedler/our-great-novelists-though-experts-on-indignity-and-assault-on/)

[Leslie Fiedler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-fiedler/)

> [The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-fiedler/the-novel-doesn-t-come-into-existence-until-certain-methods-of/)

[Leslie Fiedler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-fiedler/)

> [I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-fiedler/i-love-it-now-that-a-large-minority-of-people-who-are-handicapped/)

[Leslie Fiedler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-fiedler/)

> [Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-fiedler/saul-bellow-never-took-my-advice-when-he-was-my-friend/)

[Leslie Fiedler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-fiedler/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-fiedler/of-the-female-black-authors-i-really-like-morrison-s-early-books-a/)

[Leslie Fiedler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-fiedler/)

> [When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-fiedler/when-i-was-12-years-old-someone-took-me-to-see-martha-graham-it-was/)

[Leslie Fiedler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-fiedler/)

> [I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-fiedler/i-long-for-the-raised-voice-the-howl-of-rage-or-love/)

[Leslie Fiedler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-fiedler/)

> [I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-fiedler/i-never-met-anybody-in-my-life-who-says-i-want-to-be-a-critic-people/)

[Leslie Fiedler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-fiedler/)

> [Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-fiedler/faulkner-turned-out-to-be-a-great-teacher-when-a-student-asked-a/)

[Leslie Fiedler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-fiedler/)

> [DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-fiedler/delillo-never-seems-committed-to-me-to-what-he-is-writing-very-nice/)

[Leslie Fiedler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-fiedler/)

> [Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-fiedler/unless-criticism-refuses-to-take-itself-quite-so-seriously-or-at/)

[Leslie Fiedler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-fiedler/)

> [I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-fiedler/i-ve-had-a-tough-time-with-pynchon-i-liked-him-very-much-when-i-first/)

[Leslie Fiedler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-fiedler/)

> [My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-fiedler/my-assignment-is-what-every-writer-s-assignment-is-tell-the-truth-of/)

[Leslie Fiedler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-fiedler/)

> [I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leslie-fiedler/i-gave-up-writing-blurbs-because-you-make-one-friend-and-200-enemies/)

[Leslie Fiedler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leslie-fiedler/)

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