Leslie Fiedler Quotes

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn’t read it the way you read history or science.

Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American.

Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would say this doesn’t suit our needs precisely but on the other hand you sound interesting. Would you be interested in doing a review?

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