I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monument…

- Leslie Fiedler

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

- Leslie Fiedler

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

The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans.

- Leslie Fiedler

There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.

- Leslie Fiedler

Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.

- Leslie Fiedler

Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted …

- Leslie Fiedler

I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

- Leslie Fiedler

To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always bee…

- Leslie Fiedler