Leslie Fiedler

I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#fond #i #indian #used #wrestling

I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#anything #been #cooper #had #here

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. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#complex #denser #each #first #got

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

— Leslie Fiedler

#direction #doing #i #one thing #pushed

It's funny to be a critic. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#funny

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. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#end #finn #huckleberry #huckleberry finn #i

Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#begins #end #jane #jane austen #line

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

— Leslie Fiedler

#kafka #still #thought #writer

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

— Leslie Fiedler

#every #his #own #tell #time

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. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#become #better #black #books #clone