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.

Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.

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.

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