I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.
Leslie FiedlerI think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.
Leslie FiedlerUnless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.
Leslie Fiedler