Leslie Fiedler Quotes & Sayings

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

“I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.”

“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.”

“I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.”

“When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King.”

“I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature.”

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

“Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.”

“I liked Camille Paglia. I liked her even better when I heard her talk.”

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