Leslie Fiedler Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

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

“The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans.”

“The middlebrow, I hate.”

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

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

“Writers always know whether you like them or not.”

“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.”

“Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would say this doesn't suit our needs precisely but on the other hand you sound interesting. Would you be interested in doing a review?”

“I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory.”

“I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper.”