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Famous Leslie Fiedler Quotes
“When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer.”
“Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.”
“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.”
“Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.”
“The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans.”
“The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.”
“Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.”
“I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.”
“I liked Camille Paglia. I liked her even better when I heard her talk.”
“My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.”
“One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like.”