68 Quotes by Leslie Fiedler

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

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.

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

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

I’ve had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn’t really pay off.

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.

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.

When somebody asks me what I do, I don’t think I’d say critic. I say writer.