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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 monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#american #because #become #force #had

Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough. ↗

— Gil Kane

#came #enough #into #most #out

I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#funny #funny thing #happened #i #i think

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

#anything #been #cooper #had #here

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#change #civil #condition #custom #important

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. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#complex #denser #each #first #got

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#direction #doing #i #one thing #pushed

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. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#end #finn #huckleberry #huckleberry finn #i

Thank God for little miracles, right? ↗

— Michael Bergin

#little #miracles #right #thank #thank god

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. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#begins #end #jane #jane austen #line