The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.
Leslie FiedlerI 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 FiedlerIf there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.
Leslie Fiedler