American - Critic | March 8, 1917 - January 29, 2003
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
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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.
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If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.
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It's funny to be a critic.
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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.
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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.
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Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.
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My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.
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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.
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One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like.
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Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.
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Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.
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