68 Quotes by Leslie Fiedler

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.

I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.

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 monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature.

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

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

I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling.

Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.

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

The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.