68 Quotes by Leslie Fiedler

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

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.

Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.

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

It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours truly, at the end.

Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.

The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans.

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

Writers always know whether you like them or not.