Famous quotes by Critics

"For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?"

Fredric Jameson, Critic

"Writers always know whether you like them or not"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"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"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

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

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

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

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"I think the pattern of my essays is: A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"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"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

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

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language"

Paul de Man, Critic

"The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements"

Paul de Man, Critic

"Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament"

Paul de Man, Critic

"In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements"

Fredric Jameson, Critic

"A further point is that little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do with the older Aristotelian universals in which the idea of a chair subsumes all its individual manifestations"

Fredric Jameson, Critic

"The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature"

Paul de Man, Critic

"The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages"

Fredric Jameson, Critic

"Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that"

Fredric Jameson, Critic

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

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

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

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

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