Writer Quotes by Leslie Fiedler

I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.

— 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…

— Leslie Fiedler

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

— 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…

— Leslie Fiedler

Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.

— 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…

— 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…

— Leslie Fiedler

I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

— 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.

— 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…

— Leslie Fiedler

DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.

— 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…

— 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.…

— Leslie Fiedler

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

— Leslie Fiedler

I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.

— Leslie Fiedler