American - Critic | March 8, 1917 - January 29, 2003
The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans.
Leslie Fiedler
BlackSituationFinallyChanged
The middlebrow, I hate.
Hate
The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.
ExistenceFictionAlongComeMethods
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.
ArtThinkingDieAliveWayDying
The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.
ArtFirstHighDifferentNovelFolk
What I really dream of is that somebody would blow everything I've done out of the water in a beautiful way, which would clear the way for something better to come along.
BeautifulWaterBetterDreamDone
When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King.
KingPeopleWillRememberingUs
When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before.
GreatExperienceSpaceMeMoving
When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer.
MeThinkSayCriticSomebodyWriter
Writers always know whether you like them or not.
YouKnowAlwaysLikeThemWhether
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