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

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

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

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

When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say 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 gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies. — 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

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

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

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

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