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Leslie Fiedler quotes: When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King.

When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King.

Leslie Fiedler quotes: I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.

I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.

Leslie Fiedler quotes: One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like.

One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like.

Leslie Fiedler quotes: Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.

Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.

Leslie Fiedler quotes: 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 it better.

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 it better.

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

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

Leslie Fiedler quotes: The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.

The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.

Leslie Fiedler quotes: 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 truly, at the end.

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 truly, at the end.

Leslie Fiedler quotes: Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.

Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.

Leslie Fiedler quotes: I liked Camille Paglia. I liked her even better when I heard her talk.

I liked Camille Paglia. I liked her even better when I heard her talk.

Leslie Fiedler quotes: When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer.

When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer.

Leslie Fiedler quotes: The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.

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 Kaddish.

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 Kaddish.

Leslie Fiedler quotes: It's funny to be a critic.

It's funny to be a critic.

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

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

Leslie Fiedler quotes: I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

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

Leslie Fiedler quotes: I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory.

I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory.

Leslie Fiedler quotes: I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley.

I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley.

Leslie Fiedler quotes: All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.

Leslie Fiedler quotes: Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.

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

Leslie Fiedler quotes: I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.

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

Leslie Fiedler quotes: I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.

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 quotes: Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.

Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.

Leslie Fiedler quotes: The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans.

The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans.

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

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

Leslie Fiedler quotes: 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.

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.

Leslie Fiedler quotes: The middlebrow, I hate.

The middlebrow, I hate.

Leslie Fiedler quotes: Writers always know whether you like them or not.

Writers always know whether you like them or not.

Leslie Fiedler quotes: I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling.

I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling.

Leslie Fiedler quotes: There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.

There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.

Leslie Fiedler quotes: Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.

Leslie Fiedler quotes: If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.

Leslie Fiedler quotes: I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.

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