Quotes by Leslie Fiedler

Leslie Fiedler

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

Art

Criticism

Way

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.

Century

Poet

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.

Female

Point Of View

Views

Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would say this doesn’t suit our needs precisely but on the other hand you sound interesting. Would you be interested in doing a review?

Hands

Interesting

Sound

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

Nice

Surface

Writing

Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.

August

Light

Rooms

Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.

Students

Teacher

Wanted

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.

Agree

France

Mets

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

Frail

Gertrude

Married

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.

Funny

Historical

People

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Affection

Agree

America

Analysis

Appreciated

Arms

Art

Ask Me

Assignments

August

Black

Blue

Book

Camille

Century

Certain

Changed

Clothes

Comic

Criticism

Critics

Culture Religion

Depressing

Destiny

Dream

Dying

Easy

Enemy

Engagement

Experts

Facts

Female

Fiction

Firefighter

Frail

France

Funny

Gave Up

Gertrude

Gray Area

Hands

Heard

Historical

I Can

Ifs

Imagine

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Interesting

Kings

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Quotes by Leslie Fiedler

Leslie Fiedler

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

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.

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.

Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would say this doesn’t suit our needs precisely but on the other hand you sound interesting. Would you be interested in doing a review?

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

Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.

Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.

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.

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

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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