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I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.
— Leslie Fiedler
Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.
— 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 did it better.
— Leslie Fiedler
My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.
— Leslie Fiedler
The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.
— Leslie Fiedler
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
Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.
— Leslie Fiedler
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
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
It's funny to be a critic.
— Leslie Fiedler
DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.
— Leslie Fiedler
I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.
— 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 game, like queer theory.
— Leslie Fiedler
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
All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.
— Leslie Fiedler
Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.
— 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
The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.
— Leslie Fiedler
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
The middlebrow, I hate.
— Leslie Fiedler
Writers always know whether you like them or not.
— Leslie Fiedler
I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling.
— Leslie Fiedler
There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.
— Leslie Fiedler
Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.
— Leslie Fiedler
