> He loves Montana so!" To which Faulkner, of course, answered (maybe I only dreamed it; it all seems so pat), "To write well about some place you've got to hate it"; a pause, and then, "The way a man hates his own wife."
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.184005/mode/2up
#LeslieFiedler with #Faulkner on #Marriage and #WritingWell

> Unless he bite the hand that feeds him #TheWriter cannot live; and this those who would prefer him dead (so they can erect statues for him) can never understand. I remember #Faulkner's going once, rather improbably, to #Missoula, #Montana, and getting engaged in conversation with a lady Montanan who cried out at one point, "What can't So-and-so write a novel that would do for this part of the world what you've done for #Mississippi?
#LeslieFiedler in #Writers

> There is.. evidence that the #HardNo is being spoken when the writer seems a traitor (#GrahamGreene..) to those whom he loves and who have conditioned his very way of responding to the world. When the writer says of precisely the cause that is dearest to him what is always and everywhere the truth about all causes; that it has been imperfectly conceived, inadequately represented, and that it is bound to be betrayed.. we know that he is approaching art.. greatness.
#LeslieFiedler #NoInThunder

> Arundhati Roy: ‘The point of the writer is to be unpopular’
- https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/17/arundhati-roy-interview-you-ask-the-questions-the-point-of-the-writer-is-to-be-unpopular

#LeslieFiedler #NoInThunder #GreatWriters #ArundhatiRoy

> NO, IN THUNDER!

> What people, what party, what church needs an enemy when it has a great writer in its ranks!
- https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.184005/mode/2up

#LeslieFIedler #NoInThunder #GreatWriters #Literature #essay