Leslie Fiedler Quotes
46 Leslie Fiedler quotes:
"To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history."
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"I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake."
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"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?"
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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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"Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer."
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"The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans."
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"The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along."
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"When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King."
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"The ''text'' is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic."
Literature Quotes
Literary Criticism Quotes
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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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"If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction."
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"It's funny to be a critic."
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"Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better."
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"Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend."
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"When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer."
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"Writers always know whether you like them or not."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein."
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"I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis."
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