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46 quotes by Leslie Fiedler

Leslie Aaron Fiedler (March 8, 1917 – January 29, 2003) was an American literary critic, known for his interest in mythography and his championing of genre fiction. His work also involves application of psychological theories to American literature. He was in practical terms one of the early postmodernist critics working across literature in general, from around 1970. His most cited work is Love and Death in the American Novel (1960).
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There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.

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I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

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When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King.

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I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a... →

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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 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... →

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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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I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.

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I liked Camille Paglia. I liked her even better when I heard her talk.

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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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I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling.

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

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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... →

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