Leslie Fiedler quotes - page 2

Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend. (Leslie Fiedler)
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. But he will last, or at least those poems will last. View quote
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DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate. View quote
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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 or not because you know what he is saying. View quote
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It's funny to be a critic. View quote
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The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading. View quote
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When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer. View quote
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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 thinking about that a lot. (Leslie Fiedler)
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 say this doesn't suit our needs precisely but on the other hand you sound interesting. Would you be interested in doing a review? View quote
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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 yet historical. View quote
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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 sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic. View quote
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The middlebrow, I hate. View quote
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Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein. View quote
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Writers always know whether you like them or not. View quote
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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. View quote
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If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction. View quote
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What I really dream of is that somebody would blow everything I've done out of the water in a beautiful way, which would clear the way for something better to come along. View quote
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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)
The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along. View quote
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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 always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history. View quote
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