All Leslie Fiedler Quotes
- Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read… Anybody
- Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an… Absolutely
- DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath. Committed
- Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really… Answered
- Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would… Critics
- Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein. Almost Married
- Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him… Agree
- Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't… Closely
- I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad.… Admire
- I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis. Admit
- To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have… All
- I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist. Anybody
- 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… Age
- I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling. Affection
- When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King. All
- 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 did… Authors
- It's funny to be a critic. Critic
- Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate. Appreciated
- It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours… Edition
- Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer. Comic
- The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been… Alive
- The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans. American
- The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along. Along
- Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the… Canon
- The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the… Anthropological