Leslie Fiedler Quotes - Page 2

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

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  Novelists

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

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  Advice, My Friends

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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.

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  Art, Thinking, Dying

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

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  Comic, Stills

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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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• 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.

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  People, Experts, Engagement

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• 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.

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  Writing, Men, Years

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• Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present.

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  Past, Magic, Lines

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• 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.

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  Next, Poet, Century

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

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  Nice, Writing, Surface

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

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  Gertrude, Married, Frail

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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.

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  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.

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  Funny, People, Historical

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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.

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  Lasts, Facts, Poet

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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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Thinking, Appreciated, Easy

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

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  Thinking, Critics, Ask Me

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