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.Leslie Fiedler
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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.
Leslie Fiedler
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.
Leslie Fiedler
Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would say this doesn't suit our needs precisely but on the other hand you sound interesting. Would you be interested in doing a review?
Leslie Fiedler
The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.
Leslie Fiedler
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
Writers always know whether you like them or not.
Leslie Fiedler
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.
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Absolutely,
American,
Completely,
Cooper,
English,
Female,
Indistinguishable,
Novel,
Point,
Sense,
View,
Which,
Wrote
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