Author: Leslie Fiedler

Quotes

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

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

- Leslie Fiedler

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

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

- 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.

I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.

- Leslie Fiedler

I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.

I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.

- Leslie Fiedler

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.

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.

- Leslie Fiedler

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.

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.

- Leslie Fiedler

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.

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.

- Leslie Fiedler

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 poems will last.

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 poems will last.

- Leslie Fiedler

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.

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.

- Leslie Fiedler

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