All 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.
Leslie Fiedler
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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.
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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.
Leslie Fiedler
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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.
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Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.
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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
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The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans.
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There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.
Leslie Fiedler
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Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.
Leslie Fiedler
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I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.
Leslie Fiedler
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When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before.
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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.
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One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like.
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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.
Leslie Fiedler
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