Leslie Fiedler Quotes

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

Love, Long, Voice

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

American, Culture, Class

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

Good, History, Art

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

Read, Next, Anybody

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

Nice, Nothing, Writing

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

Living, Light, Read

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

Thought, Married, Almost

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

Between, Often, Books

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

Friend, Writing, Gave

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

Cool, Tolerance, Admit

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

Work, Understand, Read

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

Talk, Her, Heard

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

Life, Anybody, Says

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

Funny, Through, Happened

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

Used, Wrestling, Indian

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

Stand, Direction, Somebody

It's funny to be a critic.
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

End, Wrong, Last

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

Thought, Writer, Comic

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

Time, Truth, Tell

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

Black, Become, She

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

Him, Along, Recent

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

Good, Easy, Writer

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

Friend, Advice, Took

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

Black, Situation, Changed

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: March 8, 1917

Died: January 29, 2003

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