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Leslie Fiedler

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

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

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"We often forget to draw a new picture because we are so busy criticizing other paintings."

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"Listen to the song of silence to understand the unsung music of the heart."

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"The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along."
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"I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis."
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"Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel."
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"Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible."
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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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"It's funny to be a critic."
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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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"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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"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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"DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath."
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