Leslie Fiedler Quotes - Page 2

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

  Leslie Fiedler

  Gertrude, Married, Frail

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• 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.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Lasts, Facts, Poet

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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

  People, Experts, Engagement

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• I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Book, Tough Times, Pay

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• When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Thinking, Critics, Ask Me

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• Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Advice, My Friends

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

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  Writing, Enemy, Gave Up

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• Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.

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  Depressing, Culture Religion, Criticism

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• The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Fiction, Method, Certain

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

  Leslie Fiedler

  Nice, Writing, Surface

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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.

  Leslie Fiedler

  France, Mets, Agree

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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.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Funny, People, Historical

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• I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.

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  People, Firefighter, Novelists

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• I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Wrestling, Arms, Affection

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• 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

  Book, Black, Female

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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

  Thinking, Appreciated, Easy

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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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  Looks, Pages, Lasts

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

  Leslie Fiedler

  Comic, Stills

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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

  Art, Thinking, Dying

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• Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American.

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  Views, Female, Point Of View

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