68 Quotes by Leslie Fiedler

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

There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.

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.

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

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

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.

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

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 that a lot.

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