Quotes by Critics

It became inevitable that television would address life's mundane problems because television itself is so mundane, part of the ordinary flow of time the way those problems are. Lee Siegel

Life Time Problems Inevitable Address Way Those Television Would Part Became Because Itself Ordinary Mundane Flow

Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes. Leon Edel

Eyes Become Must Obsessed Pilgrim Any Literary Traveler Four Necessity

Quality survives. Leonard Maltin

Quality Survives

Timing in life is everything. Leonard Maltin

Life Timing Everything

Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them. Leonard Maltin

States Inside Angeles Never Concentration Most Greatest Los Los Angeles Been Surviving Movie Them United Palaces United States Residents

I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat. Leonard Maltin

Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film. Leonard Maltin

Attempt Animation Polar Express Film

Audiences deserve better. Leonard Maltin

Better Audiences Deserve

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

Art Good History You Science Criticism Way Read Judged Should

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

Thought Frail Married Stein He Almost Gertrude Stein Really Hemingway

I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies. Leslie Fiedler

You Writing Enemies Gave One Friend Make Because Friend Up

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

Better Liked Talk Heard Even Her

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

I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling. Leslie Fiedler

Indian Fond Wrestling Arm Used

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. Leslie Fiedler

I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off. Leslie Fiedler