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Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.

~Leslie Fiedler

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My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

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Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.

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One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like.

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Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.

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Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.

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The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans.

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The middlebrow, I hate.

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The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

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The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: March 8th, 1917

Died: January 29th, 2003

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