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Leslie Fiedler

"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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"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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"The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading."
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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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"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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"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."
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"Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible."
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"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."
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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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