I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.
From Leslie Fiedler
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.
I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.
Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.
There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.
When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King.
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.
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.
I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.
My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.
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