Leslie Fiedler America Quotations

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 been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.

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.

Writers always know whether you like them or not.

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.