Leslie Fiedler Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling.”

“One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like.”

“The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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