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He Quotes by Leslie Fiedler
- 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…
- DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.
- 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…
- Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.
- Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.
- I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such…
- Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.
- Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.
- I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put…
- 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. He…
- The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.
More He Quotes
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down. — J. J. Abrams
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- No one loves the man whom he fears. — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle