Leslie Fiedler Inspirational Quotes (27)

To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.

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

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