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I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley.

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I liked Camille Paglia. I liked her even better when I heard her talk.

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I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.

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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.

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I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling.

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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.

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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.

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It's funny to be a critic.

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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.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: March 8th, 1917

Died: January 29th, 2003

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